Mabel Osgood Wright
Popular American nature writer and novelist
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Alice Morse Earle
American writer on colonial history.
Frances Burney
English novelist and social leader
Lydia Maria Child
American writer whose 1825 novel, “The Rebels, a Tale of the Revolution,” was very popular.
Emilie Flygare-Carlén
Swedish novelist, noted for her stories of seafaring people, fishermen, and smugglers. Many of her works have been translated into English, and she also wrote an entertaining autobiography, “Reminiscences of Swedish Literary Life” (1878).
Marguerite of Navarre
French politician, religious reformer, literary patron, and author.
Emily Crawford
Irish journalist who developed a popular new approach to journalism and an unconventional and epigrammatic style while writing from France.
Ethna Carbery
Irish poet, writer, and journalist
Nola Leigh Millar
First director of the New Zealand Drama School
Frances Browne
Browne wrote a great deal of poetry; three three-volume novels, My share of the world: an autobiography (1861), The Castleford case (1862), and The hidden sin (1866); and The Ericksons (1852) and Our uncle the traveller’s stories (1859) for children. She published much in magazines and newspapers, including ‘Legends of Ulster’, but is remembered today chiefly for Granny’s wonderful chair and its tales of fairy times (1857).