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This is an alphabetical list of female novelists who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland before approximately 1800. "Beauty in search of knowledge". (Young woman in front of a circulating library, where most readers accessed novels in the 18th century.
B. Flower Backhouse, Countess of Clarendon; Mary Bankes; Alice Barnham; Jane Granville, Countess of Bath; Anne Russell, Countess of Bedford; Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford
author of at least six plays; [2] daughter of James Boaden. Booth, Ursula Agnes. 1740–1803. actor who wrote at least one farce [1][3] Boothby, Frances. 1669–1670 (fl.) author of the first original play by a woman to be produced in London. Bourchier, Rachel (Countess of Bath; née Fane) 1613–1680.
The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. Prentice Hall, 1992. (Internet Archive) Greer, Germaine, ed. Kissing the Rod: an anthology of seventeenth-century women's verse. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988. Lonsdale, Roger ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
This category is for feminine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language feminine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
Mothers of the Novel is divided into three parts. Part I treats a series of seventeenth-century women writers, only some of whom would have been familiar to most readers in 1986: Aphra Behn (1640–1689), Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673), Anne Clifford (1590–1676), Anne Fanshawe (1625–1680), Eliza Haywood (1693–1756), Lucy Hutchinson (1618–1681), Delarivière Manley (1663 –1724 ...
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She was the director of the women's magazine Journal des dames (1759–78) in 1774–1775. Barbe-Therese Marchand (1745 – fl. 1792), was a French journalist and editor. She was the director and chief editor of the Affiches d'Artois of Arras in 1789–1792. [32] Louise-Félicité de Kéralio (1757–1821), was a French publisher.