Anna Laetitia Barbauld

In 1773 she published a volume of her poems, which the same year ran through four editions. During her long life she wrote the life of Richardson, the novelist, and edited Akenside’s Pleasures of the Imagination and Collins’s Odes and a collection of the British Novelists, with memoirs and criticisms.

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Agnes Smith Lewis

Proficient in modern Greek, Arabic, and Syriac, she wrote a number of novels and accounts of travel. In 1892, with her twin sister, Mrs. Margaret Dunlop Gibson, she discovered in the library of the convent of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai, the palimpsest containing the Four Gospels in Syriac, representing the oldest text known of any part of the new Testament.

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Charlotte Mary Yonge

English author and prolific writer of the Victorian era who produced about 120 volumes, including novels, tales, school manuals, histories and biographies.

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