EB
was a leading Irish poet (latterly part resident in the USA) who also established a reputation as a critic writing on literary issues of feminism, nationalism, and modernism. Her work appeared in many...
Elizabeth Bonhote
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During the later eighteenth century EB
published seven novels (one historical) and a conduct book. Her volume of poetry dates from the next century. The conduct book had the greatest success. On most issues she...
FB
has the distinction of being the sole woman to have a play produced before Aphra Behn
, during the first decade of the restored London theatres. Her single extant poem concerns her play. She...
Best known for her children's books situated in a magical house, Green Knowe, Lucy Boston published, during the later twentieth century, twelve of these in all. She also wrote memoirs, two adult novels, and poetry.
Phyllis Bottome
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PB
was a prolific novelist who published over fifty works in approximately sixty years. Her two best-known works, Private Worlds and The Mortal Storm, were made into popular American films. In addition to novels,...
An unlikely feminist in view of her wealthy and conservative background, JB
was a prominent member of the Langham Place group, who established, edited, and contributed to the Englishwoman's Review during the second half of...
DB
's writings spanned many forms and genres during the last three decades of the nineteenth century. She published a large number of novels (which include the semi-autobiographical), short stories, ghost stories, and adapted fairy...
HMB
, who published mainly in the early nineteenth century, was an editor, conduct-book writer, theological writer, poet, and novelist. She was also the originator of the project for rendering Shakespeare
inoffensive to delicate ears...
EB
published ten novels, seventy-nine short stories, a history of her Anglo-Irish family, and a large body of critical and other nonfictional writing. Her novels and short stories blend romance (the perils of innocence, and...
MB
was an extraordinarily prolific popular writer, producing over 150 books during her life-long writing career, which ran to the mid twentieth century. Her generic repertoire was also large, and included children's books, biographies, short...
BB
, a colonial American Quaker
, published just one of the many texts she says she wrote. This work, An Alarm Sounded, 1709, a spiritual autobiography in pamphlet form, is a narrative of...
Lilian Bowes Lyon
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LBL
wrote poetry and a single novel during the earlier part of the twentieth century. Her poetry consisted of six volumes published in her lifetime (the last a Collected Poems) and a long-posthumous volume...
CB
was a nineteenth-century poet, essayist, and writer of prose fiction. She published extensively in periodicals, particularly Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and her works were often collected in volume form. Her verse is sometimes sentimental...
William Lisle Bowles
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Muriel Box
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MB
, who collaborated with her first husband, Sydney
, in the mid twentieth century on numerous plays (the more than fifty which preceded the Second World War included two volumes of one-acters with all-female...
EB
was a versatile, ususally satirical author in the earlier half of the eighteenth century. Writing for her livelihood, she undertook a remarkable number of genres, many of which she hybridized or otherwise experimented with...
MB
wrote throughout the nineteenth century, composing novels, short stories, historical catalogues, and verse. She also contributed to several periodicals. Though well-liked and frequently praised by her peers, her works are now little read.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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MEB
made her name, scandalously, in the early 1860s as a founder of the intricately plotted sensation novel, and was particularly known for her transgressive heroines. Although still most strongly associated with this and the...
