AB
, born and brought up in seventeenth-century England, is known as the earliest poet of North America. She was a skilled and ambitious practitioner of verse history and scholarly adaptation from classical authors...
Popular or dime novelistCMB
was a prolific author—estimates of the number of novels she produced range from thirty to two hundred or more—in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century. Her score...
HB
, who was active at the end of the eighteenth century, was a mediocre poet but a remarkable, unconventional playwright who produced tragedy, comedy, and translation.
Anna Brassey
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Anna Brassey
's writing arose out of her husband's professional travels, and began as private letters to her father covering intimate details of her family life at sea. On publication it made her a celebrated...
AEB
first reached print with a collection of letters, the first of two which appeared over the course of her career. During fifty-four years, she published twelve novels, and twelve historical and biographical works. She...
AB
began writing children's plays about fairies, and progressed, during the first half of the twentieth century, through one bildungsroman for girls based on her own childhood and another on the experience of her mother...
JBB
is a Jamaican-British poet who published her first collection in 1983, having begun performing a few years earlier. Her poetic style is based around verbal delivery and musical accompaniment. Her writing is often centred...
Fredrika Bremer
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FB was a nineteenth-century Swedish author, her country's leading representative of women's writing and feminist thinking and action in her generation, and for several more to come. She published short fiction and novels (which were...
JB
was a poet who began writing in Wales before her marriage in 1711 and remained productive until her death thirty years later. She discusses poetry, too, in personal letters.
Dorothy Brett
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DB
, or Brett as she called herself, is chiefly remembered for the pictures she painted, first in London and then in Taos, New Mexico, in the first half of the twentieth century. Her...
AB
was a twentieth-century novelist who began by exploiting the milieu of the British Foreign Office
community in Peking in China, where she lived for two years with her diplomat husband. Her novels combine...
Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater
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ECECB
, born Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, used to be known as a collaborator with her sister Lady Jane
in poems and plays written in the 1640s. Recent scholarship, while arguing that her part in these...
Amelia Bristow
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AB
wrote during the early nineteenth century for her inadequate living, turning out novels, more than one conduct book, and work for magazines. Most notable is her series of novels about the Jewish-Polish background from...
From her university days before the First World War, VB
was determined to be a writer. Her career as a novelist never fulfilled her own expectations; it was not until the publication of Testament of...
ENB was the author of four melodramatic, sentimental novels dating from 1784 to 1803. Three are epistolary. The last one masquerades as an adaptation from an Italian original. A play and an opera by her...
The youngest of the famous Brontë sisters, AB
has had the slightest reputation among the three for her output of poetry and two novels. Recently, however, her fiction's importance and influence has begun to be...
CB
's five novels, with their passionate explorations of the dilemmas facing nineteenth-century middle-class English women, have made her perhaps the most loved, imitated, resisted, and hotly debated novelist of the Victorian period.
Emily Brontë
collaborated with her siblings on a body of juvenilia, and by herself wrote a small number of poems and a single surviving novel. Wuthering Heights is established as one of the most original...
