Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier
Scottish novelist who wrote three novels: Marriage, The Inheritance, and Destiny, all vigorous and lively pictures of Scottish life and character, written in clear, brisk English, with an inexhaustible fund of humor.
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Sarah Orne Jewett
American novelist, and writer of short stories who excelled in the simple and intimate portrayal of New England character in its finer and gentler moods.
Saint Catherine of Siena
Saint Catherine of Siena as a child believed herself to have seen a holy vision, and became convinced that God Himself had come to call her to a better life. She gave up childish amusements, and, fasting and praying, even scourging herself, she filled her life with penances in the manner of the grown-up holy men and women about her.
Agnes Repplier
American essayist and critic who contributed to many periodicals such as Scribner’s and the Atlantic Monthly, and has spent much of her time in Europe. Her essays are distinguished for dignity of treatment, a lucid style, and a delicate sense of humor, with not a little irony.
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
American novelist, poet and essayist
Anne Lynch Botta
American author and sculptor
Amy Lowell
American poet and critic
Celia Thaxter
American poet
Edith Wharton
Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Journalist, short-story writer, and novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Yearling (1938).