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Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era. [1] She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret , which has also been dramatised and filmed several times.
One of the most frequent complaints was that, of the 100, only 21 were by women. One reviewer desired Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Erica Jong's Fear of Flying, Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, books by Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Willa Cather and Margaret Kennedy.
"English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century", Caroline Norton (1854) [63] "A Letter to the Queen On Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill", Caroline Norton (1855) [ 64 ] Marriage of Lucy Stone Under Protest , Lucy Stone , Rev. Thomas Wentworth Higginson , and Henry Blackwell (1855) [ 65 ]
Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma Magdalena Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci) (/ ˈ ɔːr t s iː /; 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947), usually known as Baroness Orczy (the name under which she was published) or to her family and friends as Emmuska Orczy, was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best ...
Victorian women writers (1 C, 233 P) Pages in category "19th-century British women writers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 242 total.
The novel was a fictitious autobiography about overcoming antisemitism and includes one of the first sympathetic Jewish characters in an English novel. [46] Helen (1834) is Maria Edgeworth's final novel, the only one she wrote after her father's death. She chose to write a novel focused on the characters and situation, rather than moral lessons ...
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]
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was