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A Dictionary of British and American women writers, 1660–1800. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985. (Internet Archive) Williams, K. "Women Writers and the Rise of the Novel." The History of British Women's Writing, 1690–1750. Edited by R. Ballaster. Series: The History of British Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Sarah Stickney Ellis, born Sarah Stickney (1799 – 16 June 1872), also known as Sarah Ellis, was an English author. She was a Quaker turned Congregationalist . Her numerous books are mostly about women's roles in society. [ 1 ]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:19th-century British writers. It includes British writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:19th-century British male writers
"English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century", Caroline Norton (1854) [62] "A Letter to the Queen On Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill", Caroline Norton (1855) [62] Marriage of Lucy Stone Under Protest, Lucy Stone, Rev. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Henry Blackwell (1855) [63]
Mary Hays (1759–1843) was an autodidact intellectual who published essays, poetry, novels and several works on famous (and infamous) women. She is remembered for her early feminism, and her close relations to dissenting and radical thinkers of her time including Robert Robinson, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and William Frend. [1]
While Caroline fought to extend women's legal rights, she eschewed further social activism and had no interest in the 19th-century women's movement on issues such as women's suffrage. [46] In fact, in an article published in The Times in 1838, she countered a claim that she was a "radical": "The natural position of woman is inferiority to man ...
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (1 October 1790 – 12 July 1846) was a popular Victorian English writer and novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Charlotte Elizabeth.She was "a woman of strong mind, powerful feeling, and of no inconsiderable share of tact."
In a 2007 authors' poll by Time, Middlemarch was voted the tenth greatest literary work ever written. [65] In 2015, writers from outside the UK voted it first among all British novels "by a landslide". [66] The various film and television adaptations of Eliot's books have re-introduced her to the wider reading public.