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Title page of volume 3 of "Olivia or Deserted Bride", a novel which Elizabeth Bonhote published anonymously but with mention of earlier works.

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...
Page of a manuscript cookery book whose ownership inscription reads "Frances Boothby, Her Booke of Cookery, 1660 : Frances Brewster, her book." It is probable that this book was written or compiled by the very early playwright who bore these names.

Frances Boothby

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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...

Lucy Boston

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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,...
Black and white photograph of Jessie Boucherett, standing with one arm resting on the back of a chair. There is a screen with a pattern of vines behind her, and she is wearing a fur-trimmed coat and a small hat.

Jessie Boucherett

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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...

Dion Boucicault

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Dorothy Boulger

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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...
Title-page of Henrietta Maria Bowdler's anonymous "Sermons on the Doctrines and Duties of Christianity", fourth edition, 1803. A contemporary has added the author's name: "Mrs Harriet Bowdler of Bath." This copy bears the ownership stamp of a theological seminary, and a librarian has repeated Bowdler's full name.

Henrietta Maria Bowdler

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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...
Black and white head-and-shoulders photograph of Elizabeth Bowen seen in profile, with her head slightly turned. She is wearing a dark, high-collared jacket with a polka-dotted scarf around her neck; her hair, dark with a white streak, is pulled back in a bun, and she is wearing dark lipstick.

Elizabeth Bowen

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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...
Sepia photograph of Marjorie Bowen. The photograph is tightly focused on her face, which is framed by short but voluminous curls, and she has a lace collar around her neck.

Marjorie Bowen

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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...

Bathsheba Bowers

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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...
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Lilian Bowes Lyon, seen from the side with her face turned to face the viewer. She is wearing a light, lacy dress with short sleeves, and two strands of pearls. Her dark hair is parted in the middle, with a fringe.

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...

Caroline Bowles

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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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Black and white photograph of Muriel Box as film director, looking alertly forward with one hand on a large camera and the other holding an open script. Her dark, zippered jacket is open over a white shirt.

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...
Title-page of "The Happy-Unfortunate; or, The Female-Page: a Novel" by Elizabeth Boyd, 1732. Boyd gives her name in full, and adds a quotation from Delarivier Manley in which Manley is actually quoting Anne Finch. The colophon of the publisher, Thomas Edlin, is followed by the date.

Elizabeth Boyd

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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...

Mary Boyle

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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.
Painting of Mary Elizabeth Braddon by William Powell Frith, exhibited 1865. She stands beside a desk with writing materials and stacks of books, looking at the viewer, in a long dark dress. The wall behind her and the desk chair are red. Her red-brown hair is coiled over her ears, and her clasped hands hold a handkerchief. National Portrait Gallery.

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...

George Bradshaw

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Three-quarter-length painting of Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw by Thomas Lawrence, 1806. She is depicted outdoors, in motion, wearing a pink gown and orange shawl, picking grapes with her face turned to the viewer and framed in unruly dark curls.

Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw

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MACB was the author of two early nineteenth-century historical novels, and, in her prefatory material, of some incisive comments on novel-writing.