Margaret Oliphant
English novelist and biographer
English novelist and biographer
Biruta Skujeniece often appeared on the stage of the Latvian theatre, but she made a name for herself chiefly as an elocutionist.
Irish-American theatre actress
English author.
English author and eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray
American poet, journalist, and writer of children’s stories
Canadian journalist, agriculturalist, Women’s rights activist and suffragist.
In addition to being one of the country’s bestselling authors of her day and having three silent film adaptations of her novels, Johnson was a women’s rights advocate.
She wrote both in prose and in verse, and her works were published after her death, in one volume, entitled Love and Poetry.
Dutch writer who left nearly fifty novels and sketches.