OW
's significance as poet, playwright, and writer of prose fiction, remained in eclipse for many years after his notorious trial and imprisonment in Reading Gaol
, events whose chilling impact on poetry and prose...
Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
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SSW
began publishing before the end of the eighteenth century. Books for children were her first market niche: both short fiction and instructional works. She later moved into translation and into other kinds of fiction...
Anna Williams
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AW
was an eighteenth-century translator and poet. Best-known among her slender oeuvre is a miscellany or anthology of contemporary poems. Her projected dictionary of scientific terms remained unwritten.
HMW
wrote, during the Romantic or revolutionary period, as a woman with a mission, eager to see change for the better in the political, international world. She was a radical and egalitarian in gender relations...
JW
's eight books and several periodical publications appeared from the pre-Victorian to the mid-Victorian period in a number of genres, including poetry, literary criticism (of women writers in particular), and an account of her...
Sarah Williams
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SW
had a short and promising career in the late 1860s as a writer of journalism, poetry, and fiction aimed at both children and adults. Highly regarded by other writers, her work not only ranges...
Amabel Williams-Ellis
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Across her long career, AWE
worked as an author, editor, compiler, and translator. She wrote periodical articles, novels, and books of information on politics, culture, women's lives, and science: both historical and contemporary, for both...
Ethel Wilson
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Born in South Africa and raised until age ten in Britain, Ethel Wilson
is best known as one of the first regional Canadian writers to capture in intimate detail the beauty of British Columbia, Canada...
Harriet E. Wilson
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HEW
, the first black woman to publish a novel—Hannah Crafts
may have written the first one,—in the USA, created the form for such novels by subverting the form of fiction offered her...
Harriette Wilson
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HW
turned her career as an early nineteenth-century courtesan to good practical use as a memoirist and writer of scandal fiction: though she shows genuine literary talent, the primary aim of her writing was blackmail...
During a brief writing career (almost entirely limited to the 1920s) RW
wrote produced novels, two novellas, a play, a biography, and a posthumously published collection of short stories. She compiled and edited three volumes...
John Strange Winter
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Best known for her early military fiction, JSW
(nom de plume of Henrietta Palmer, later Stannard) was a prolific and popular author of over a hundred novels and volumes of short stories. Writing in the...
JW
, writing in the late twentieth and the twenty-first centuries, has been acclaimed by some critics and savaged by others for her provocative and outspoken novels, in which she uncompromisingly confronts cultural notions of...
As an unmarried woman, on the fringes of a London network of professional writers in the early eighteenth century, JW
produced poetry and letters, gallant in tone, and a tragedy that reached the stage. After...
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
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EPW
, writing in the early nineteenth century, was a poet and translator whose fables, fairy tales, and narrative poems displayed her skill, charm, and range. An anonymous novel of 1796 has only recently been...
Hannah Wolley
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HW
predates Aphra Behn
in making a living by her pen, only in her case her seventeenth-century writings (on cooking, medicine, household skills, and general conduct) aimed to attract students to her other career, which...
Mary Wollstonecraft
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MW
has a distinguished historical place as a feminist: as theorist, critic and reviewer, novelist, and especially as an activist for improving women's place in society. She also produced pedagogy or conduct writing, an anthology...
In a writing career spanning most of the second half of the nineteenth century, EW
produced a prodigious body of work (often writing two triple-deckers per year), including sketches, novels, and a series of interconnected...
ECW
did not begin her publishing career until past the age of sixty. Then, following her husband's death, she produced an average of a book a year, to almost exclusively negative reviews. The publications included...
Sophia Woodfall
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SW
, whose career was in acting, published two interesting novels during the first decade of the nineteenth century. Some lines of poetry in one of them are probably her own.