Margaret Escott
Margaret Escott is best remembered as the author of the novel Show down.
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Anne Lynch Botta
American author and sculptor
Amy Lowell
American poet and critic
Celia Thaxter
American poet
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.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
One of the great poets of England.
Abbasa bint al-Mahdi
Princess and poet
Rihi Puhiwahine Te Rangi-hirawea
The most famous of the women of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Maniapoto in the nineteenth century was undoubtedly Rihi Puhiwahine Te Rangi-hirawea.
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