Dorothy Hewett
Hewett’s frank and often personal depiction of female sexuality and strength was at times controversial, but cemented her reputation as a leading feminist, politically aware Australian writer who mastered many genres.
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Elizabeth Inchbald
English actress, dramatist and novelist
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.
Caroline Elizabeth Norton
English poet and novelist
Alice Annie Kenny
One of New Zealand’s most assiduous but least-remembered writers
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.
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.
Dinah Craik
Better known as Miss Mulock, an English novelist.
Eve Maria Langley
During the 1930s Eve Langley had begun writing poetry and short stories, and these were widely published in New Zealand periodicals.
Selma Lagerlöf
Eminent Swedish novelist and leader of the modern romantic reaction in Sweden.