Mary Virginia Terhune
American novelist and journalist
American novelist and journalist
1700s Irish printer and bookseller
New Zealand’s most widely read popular novelist of the 1930s and 1940s
Irish journalist and novelist
Her debut novel The Harp of the South was inspired by the poverty and crime of the Surry Hills area in which they lived. The novel won the Sydney Morning Herald’s literary competition in 1946 and went on to be published in 1948.
Sydney residents were shocked at the novel’s descriptions of slum-life including ‘crime, domestic violence, prostitution and backyard abortions’ (Australian, 2010). In response, the NSW government initially denied the existence of slums in Sydney however they eventually conceded by demolishing many of the dilapidated Victorian terraces around Sydney and relocating residents into housing commission units. She went on to write over fifty books, including nine novels.
Best known by her pen name Assia Djebar, Fatima-Zohra Imalayen was an Algerian feminist novelist, translator and filmmaker, considered one of North Africa’s most influential writers.
French writer whose Novelle Revue, founded in 1879, and salon were politically influential
American author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,
English author of Frankenstein
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector