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This category contains female writers active in the United Kingdom and the British Empire during the Victorian era (the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901). This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Victorian writers .
George Howell, an amateur Victorian artist, used his letters to his brother as a space to combine his words and his artistic works. [13] Similarly, Beatrix Potter, an author/illustrator, often included pictures in her letters as a means of comfort and relief from the pressures she faced from her family. [13]
It is a subcategry of People of the Victorian era, and should only contain women active in Britain or in the British Empire. Only women who were notable during the Victorian era should be placed here: women who were born during the Victoria era, but active later, such as in the Edwardian era , should not be placed here.
The iconic wide-brimmed women's hats of the later Victorian era also followed the trend towards ostentatious display. Hats began the Victorian era as simple bonnets. By the 1880s, milliners were tested by the competition among women to top their outfits with the most creative (and extravagant) hats, designed with expensive materials such as ...
Victorian Women Writers Project; Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists & Writers of Color; The Women Writers Archive: Early Modern Women Writers Online; SOPHIE: a digital library of works by German-speaking women; REBRA: a list of women writers from Brazil. Biographies in Portuguese, English and in Spanish
This is a list of female poets with a Wikipedia page, listed by the period in which they were born. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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. Mezzotint, printed by R. Sayer & J. Bennett ...
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...