EB
was a essayist, poet and novelist of the late nineteenth century. She wrote only on request; her compositions were not intended for publication. After her early death, her father edited and published much of...
Louisa Baldwin
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Over the course of her writing career (during the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth), LB
published four novels, two collections of children's stories, one collection of gothic ghost stories...
Clara Balfour
, like many Victorians, wrote prolifically on the subject of temperance, arguing its importance for a healthy society. Her other works often had theological or anti-socialist aims. Her works include moral and didactic...
IB
was a prolific author first of poetry, then of journalism, and later of many novels. She was well-known as a regional novelist, setting many of her books in early nineteenth-century Manchester and the north...
AB
was a Scottish Romantic who published three volumes of poetry as well as contributions to periodicals. Her popularity in her day is evinced by the way her contemporaries quoted her.
HB
began writing in British India to amuse her two small daughters, published the book The Story of Little Black Sambo at the end of the nineteenth century, and immediately became immensely successful as a...
ALB
, writing and publishing in the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century, was a true woman of letters, an important poet, revered as mouthpiece or laureate for Rational Dissent. Her ground-breaking work on...
MB
is a domestic, small-scale, early eighteenth-century poet of charm and intelligence (remembered particularly for her writing about her children), but also an incisive, often satirical commentator on social and gender issues. Her single collection...
HB
was a prolific popular novelist of the twentieth century, who had her greatest successes before and after the First World War and was still publishing after the second. Her autobiography, issued in 1941, lists...
JB
, who wrote during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, shows remarkable daring and originality both as a poet and as a writer of prose fiction. Critical attention to her as a proto-feminist...
Mary Anne Barker
(later Broome: she published both as Lady Barker and Lady Broome) put her considerable talent to work during the 1870s in London journalism (reviewing, reporting, editing) and in miscellaneous writing: stories...
PB
is a contemporary writer of fiction (novels, linked tales, and short stories) who began publishing about women's lives but has made her special subject-matter the working-class culture of northern industrial towns and the experience...
CB
was a balladeer and poet who composed music for songs written by herself and by others such as Alfred Tennyson
and Charlotte Brontë
. Over the span of eleven years she composed about a...
Lady Anne Barnard
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LAB
, in her twenties a notable contributor to the Scots ballad revival, became during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a memoirist, political letter-writer, diarist, and travel-writer, as well as a fine illustrator.
Best-known for her novel Nightwood, 1936, about her fellow Americans in Paris, DB
wrote in a number of other genres: plays, short stories, poetry, and journalism. Other works like the Ladies Almanack defy generic...
Natalie Clifford Barney
, though American, is best known as a Paris salonnière. She specialized in memoirs and pensées, though she also produced poetry, drama, novels, essays, and dialogues. Writing primarily in French but also...
MB
was a poet before her first marriage (in the later eighteenth century, publishing regularly in magazines). Twenty years after the appearance of her own poetry volume, she was imprisoned for debt, and wrote about...
