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List of early-modern British women novelists

April 09, 2024

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. Nota bene: authors of novels are the focus of this list, though many of these writers worked in more than one genre.

"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, London, 1782.)

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Notes edit

  1. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  2. ^ Referred to in E. M. Forster.
  3. ^ ”Bayley, Catharine.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2768. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  4. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  5. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  6. ^ "Bouverie, Sophia." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2746. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Listed in Dale Spender's Mothers of the novel: 100 good women writers before Jane Austen (Pandora, 1986, p. 119ff). Spender is notable for her work recuperating the work of women writers long out of print.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American women writers, 1660-1800. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985. (Internet Archive)
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Republished in the Pandora Press "Mothers of the Novel" series, 1986–1989.
  10. ^ "Bullock, Mrs." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2242. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  11. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  12. ^ "Sarah Butler." Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge UP.
  13. ^ Chawton House has a PDF of her Irish Tales (1716).
  14. ^ "C., Lady Mary." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2672. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  15. ^ Chawton House has a PDF of her The Offspring of Fancy (1778).
  16. ^ "Carver, Mrs." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2228. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  17. ^ Chawton House has a PDF of her The Old Woman (1800).
  18. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Turner, Cheryl. Living by the pen: women writers in the eighteenth century. Routledge, 1992.
  19. ^ "Colpoys, Mrs." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2624. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  20. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  21. ^ "Croffts, Mrs." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2319. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  22. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  23. ^ "Draper, Sarah." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2436. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  24. ^ "Elson, Jane." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 1632. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  25. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  26. ^ "Frances, Sophia." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2733. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  27. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  28. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  29. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  30. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  31. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  32. ^ "Howell, Ann." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 1025. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  33. ^ Chawton House has a 1787 PDF of Hughes's Caroline; or, the Diversities of Fortune (1787).
  34. ^ "Hunter, Maria." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 1898. Accessed 2022-06-12.
  35. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  36. ^ "Isaacs, Mrs." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2691. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  37. ^ "Johnson, Mrs." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2306. Accessed 2022-09-29.
  38. ^ Chawton House has a PDF of her Francis, the Philanthropist: an unfashionable tale (1786).
  39. ^ "Jones, Harriet." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2663. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  40. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  41. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  42. ^ "Lansdell, Sarah". The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2428. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  43. ^ "Leslie, Mrs." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2693. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  44. ^ "Leycester, Martha-Elizabeth." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2592. Accessed 2022-09-29.
  45. ^ Chawton House has a PDF of her The Cottage of Friendship (1788).
  46. ^ a b c d e Minerva Press, British Fiction 1800–1829 Database
  47. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  48. ^ ”Malden, Miriam.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2718. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  49. ^ a b c d e f Summers, Montague. A Gothic Bibliography (1941; available online at Internet Archive).
  50. ^ "Martin, Mrs." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 281. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  51. ^ Chawton House has a PDF of her The Enchantress; or, Where Shall I Find Her? A Tale (1801).
  52. ^ Chawton House has a PDF of her Simple Facts or the History of an Orphan (1793).
  53. ^ "Mathews, Mrs." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 281. Accessed 2022-29-09.
  54. ^ "Mathews, Mrs." Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge UP.
  55. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  56. ^ ”Matthew, Charlotte.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2694. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  57. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  58. ^ ”Mills, Frances Mary.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2695. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  59. ^ ”Moore, Marian.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2703. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  60. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  61. ^ Neiman, Elizabeth, and Christina Morin. "Re-evaluating the Minerva Press: introduction." Romantic textualties: literature and print culture, 1780–1840. Issue 23: Special Issue: The Minerva Press and the literary marketplace (Summer 2020): 15.
  62. ^ Chawton House has a PDF of her The Solemn Injunction (1798).
  63. ^ "Neri, Mary Anne." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2719. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  64. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  65. ^ ”Oakes, Susanna.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2704. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  66. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  67. ^ ”Ormsby, Anne.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2705. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  68. ^ "Parker, Mary Elizabeth." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 1479. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  69. ^ "Catherine Parry." Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge UP.
  70. ^ Author of Castle of Wolfenbach (London: Minerva Press, 1793) and The Mysterious Warning, a German Tale (London: Minerva Press, 1796), two of the seven "horrid novels" mentioned in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.
  71. ^ "Sarah Pearson." Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge UP.
  72. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  73. ^ ”Peck, Frances.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2754. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  74. ^ "M. Peddle." Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge UP.
  75. ^ "Philipps, Janetta." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 4853. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  76. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  77. ^ ”Pickar, Mary.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2729. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  78. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  79. ^ “Ratcliffe, Eliza.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2755. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  80. ^ ”Rhodes, Henrietta.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2791. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  81. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  82. ^ "Corvey has moved | Sheffield Hallam University".
  83. ^ "Roberts, Mrs. D." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2735. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  84. ^ "Corvey has moved | Sheffield Hallam University".
  85. ^ "Robertson, Eliza Frances.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2720. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  86. ^ Author of Clermont (London: Minerva Press, 1798), one of the seven "horrid novels" mentioned in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.
  87. ^ Author of The balance of comfort; or The old maid and married woman. A novel. London: Minerva Press, 1818 (Internet Archive) and The woman of genius. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821 (Internet Archive)
  88. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  89. ^ "Scott, Honoria.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2783. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  90. ^ "Sheriffe, Sarah." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2686. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  91. ^ "Showes, Mrs." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 365. Accessed 2022-06-09. ()
  92. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  93. ^ “Sinclair, Caroline." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2765. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  94. ^ Author of The Orphan of the Rhine (London: Minerva Press, 1798), one of the seven "horrid novels" mentioned in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.
  95. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  96. ^ “Smith, Julia.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2785. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  97. ^ "Smith, Maria Lavinia." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2697. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  98. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  99. ^ “St. Victor, Helen.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2756. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  100. ^ "Street, Miss." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2171. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  101. ^ "Stuart, Augusta Amelia." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2594. Accessed 2022-06-14.
  102. ^ Stuart's Cava of Toledo; or, the Gothic Princess (Minerva, 1812) is available from Chawton House as a PDF.
  103. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  104. ^ "Taylor, Miss." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2166. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  105. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  106. ^ “Tharmott, Maria.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2744. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  107. ^ Lonsdale, Roger ed. "Ann Thomas." Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, p. 361.
  108. ^ "Thomson, Anna." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2257. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  109. ^ "Thomson, Harriet." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2721. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  110. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  111. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  112. ^ “Trelawney, Anne." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2757. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  113. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  114. ^ “Tuck, Mary.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2722. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  115. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  116. ^ "Ventum, Harriet.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2698. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  117. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  118. ^ "Wingrove, Ann.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 1041. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  119. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  120. ^ ”Woodfall, Sophia.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 599. Accessed 2023-01-02.
  121. ^ "A. Woodfin." Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge UP.
  122. ^ "Woodthorpe, Augusta Maria." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2766. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  123. ^ "Wright, Elizabeth." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2699. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  124. ^ "Yorke, Mrs. R. P. M." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2687. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  125. ^ Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
  126. ^ ”Young, Henrietta Maria.” The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 2767. Accessed 2023-01-02.

Resources edit

  • Backscheider, Paula, and John Richetti, eds. Popular Fiction by Women, 1660–1730: An Anthology. Oxford: OUP, 1996. (Internet Archive)
  • Ballaster, Ros. Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740. Clarendon Press, 1992.
  • Blain, Virginia, et al., eds. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990. (Internet Archive)
  • Buck, Claire, ed.The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. Prentice Hall, 1992. (Internet Archive)
  • Corman, Brian. Women Novelists Before Jane Austen: The Critics and Their Canons. University of Toronto Press, 2008. [1]https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442689633
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
  • Prescott, Sarah. Women, Authorship and Literary Culture, 1690–1740. Palgrave, 2003.
  • Robertson, Fiona, ed. Women's Writing, 1778–1838. Oxford: OUP, 2001. (Internet Archive)
  • Schellenberg, Betty A. The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-521-85060-6.
  • Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter. An encyclopedia of British women writers. Rutgers University Press, 1998. (Internet Archive)
  • Spencer, Jane. The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen. 1986.
  • Spender, Dale. Mothers of the novel: 100 good women writers before Jane Austen. London/NY:Pandora, 1986. (Internet Archive)
  • Todd, Janet, ed. British Women Writers: a critical reference guide. London: Routledge, 1989. (Internet Archive)
  • Todd, Janet. 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. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230298354_7

External links edit

  • British Women Romantic Poets An electronic collection of texts for the period (1789–1832).
  • The Brown University Women Writers Project Emphasis is on pre-Victorian women writers.
  • A Celebration of Women Writers A major focus of this site is the development of on-line editions of older, often rare, out-of-copyright works.
  • A collection of texts by women writing from the seventeenth century through the early twentieth century.
  • Collectively, the resources at this site "provide information about any 17th-century British woman writer one could imagine."
  • Luminarium An online Anthology of English Literature
  • Romantic Circles, a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.
  • The Women's Print History Project

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This literature related list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items June 2022 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 Nota bene authors of novels are the focus of this list though many of these writers worked in more than one genre 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 amp J Bennett London 1782 Contents 1 Novelists 1 1 A 1 2 B 1 3 C 1 4 D 1 5 E 1 6 F 1 7 G 1 8 H 1 9 I 1 10 J 1 11 K 1 12 L 1 13 M 1 14 N 1 15 O 1 16 P 1 17 R 1 18 S 1 19 T 1 20 V 1 21 W 1 22 Y 2 See also 3 Notes 4 Resources 5 External linksNovelists editA edit Penelope Aubin c 1658 1731 Jane Austen 1775 1817 B edit Jane Barker 1652 1732 Mrs Barnby fl 1799 1804 1 Mrs E G Bayfield 2 Catharine Bayley fl 1810 1812 3 Amelia Beauclerc fl 1810s Aphra Behn 1640 1689 Elizabeth Benger 1775 1827 Helena Berkenhout fl 1805 4 Anna Maria Bennett c 1750 1808 Elizabeth Blower c 1757 1763 after 1816 Elizabeth Bonhote nee Mapes 1744 1818 Jeanne T Bottens fl 1808 5 Sophia Bouverie fl 1808 6 Elizabeth Boyd c 1710 1745 Sophia Briscoe fl 1770s Eliza Bromley nee Nugent fl 1784 1803 Charlotte Brooke c 1740 1793 Frances Brooke 1723 1789 Indiana Brooks fl 1789 7 8 Mary Brunton 1778 1818 9 Anne Bryton fl 1780 8 Mrs Bullock fl 1795 1801 10 Anne Burke fl 1780 1805 Caroline Burney pseud fl 1809 1810 Frances Burney 1752 1840 9 Sarah Burney 1772 1844 Charlotte Susan Maria Bury nee Campbell 1775 1861 Harriet Butler fl 1806 1807 11 Sarah Butler c 1689 c 1716 12 13 Medora Gordon Byron 1790 1858 C edit Lady Mary C fl 1797 14 Mary Ann Canning fl 1778 15 Mrs H Cartwright fl 1776 1787 Mrs Carver fl 1797 1800 16 17 Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw c 1758 1849 Margaret Cavendish 1623 1673 Mary Champion de Crespigny nee Clarke c 1749 1812 Charlotte Charke nee Cibber 1713 1760 Mary Charlton fl 1794 1824 Harriet Chilcot later Meziere 1754 1784 7 18 Emily Frederick Clark fl 1798 1833 Elizabeth Cobbold nee Knipe 1767 1824 Jane Collier 1714 1755 Mary Collyer nee Mitchell c 1716 1763 Mrs Colpoys fl 1801 19 Maria Susanna Cooper 1737 1807 Cordelia Cordova fl 1809 20 Helen Craik c 1751 1825 Mrs Croffts fl 1798 1801 21 Margaret Cullen 1767 1837 Catherine Cuthbertson c 1775 1842 D edit Charlotte Dacre nee King later Byrne pseud Rosa Matilda 1782 1825 Anne Seymour Damer nee Conway 1748 1828 Selina Davenport 1779 1859 Mary Davys 1674 1732 Anne Dawe fl 1770 7 8 18 Thomasine Dennis fl 1806 22 Ann Doherty c 1786 c 1832 Sarah Draper fl 1796 23 Camilla Dufour fl 1803 E edit Anne Eden fl 1790 7 18 Maria Edgeworth 1768 1849 9 Jane Elson fl 1800 1802 24 F edit Eliza Fenwick nee Jaco 1767 1840 9 Susan Edmonstone Ferrier 1782 1854 Sarah Fielding 1710 1768 9 Matilda Fitz John fl 1796 25 E M Foster fl 1795 1810 Sophia Frances fl 1806 1809 26 Anne Fuller died 1790 G edit Phebe Gibbes died 1805 Mary Goldsmith fl 1804 27 Ann Gomersall 1750 1835 Elizabeth Sarah Gooch 1757 1807 Sarah Green fl 1790 1825 Elizabeth Griffith 1727 1793 Susannah Gunning nee Minifie 1740 1800 H edit Ann Mary Hamilton fl 1806 1813 Elizabeth Hamilton 1756 or 1758 1816 Mary Hamilton nee Leslie 1736 1821 9 Mary Ann Hanway fl 1776 1814 Martha Harley later Hugill fl 1786 1797 Jane Harvey 1771 1848 Ann Julia Hatton nee Kemble 1764 1838 Laetitia Matilda Hawkins 1759 1835 Mary Hays 1759 1843 9 Eliza Haywood 1693 1756 9 Mary Hearne fl 1718 Elizabeth Helme nee Horrobin 1743 1814 Elizabeth Hervey nee Marsh 1748 c 1820 Mary Hill fl 1809 1813 28 Augusta Ann Hirst fl 1807 29 Barbara Hofland nee Wreaks 1770 1844 Fanny Holcroft 1780 1844 Margaret Holford 1757 1834 Margaret Holford 1778 1852 Esther Holsten fl 1801 1803 30 Sarah Ann Hook fl 1803 1804 31 Ann Howell fl 1787 1797 7 32 Anne Rice Hughes fl 1786 1795 7 8 18 33 Maria Hunter fl 1772 1778 7 8 18 34 Rachel Hunter c 1754 1813 Margaret Hurry fl 1795 1809 35 I edit Elizabeth Inchbald 1753 1821 9 Mrs Issacs fl 1801 1820 36 J edit Frances Jacson 1754 1842 Mrs Johnson fl 1786 1792 37 38 Harriet Jones fl 1799 1818 39 K edit Susanna Keir nee Harvey 1747 1802 Isabella Kelly nee Fordyce 1759 1857 Ann Kendall fl 1798 1800 40 Anne Ker nee Phillips 1766 1821 Dorothy Kilner 1755 1836 Mary Ann Kilner nee Maze 1753 1831 Sophia King c 1781 c 1805 Cornelia Knight 1757 1837 L edit Eliza Lake fl 1800 1806 41 Sarah Lansdell fl 1796 1798 7 8 18 42 Mary Latter 1725 1777 Harriet Lee 1757 1851 9 Sophia Lee 1750 1824 9 Elizabeth Le Fanu 1758 1837 Charlotte Lennox nee Ramsay 1720 1804 9 Elizabeth Anne Le Noir c 1755 1841 Mrs Leslie fl 1801 1806 43 Alethea Lewis 1749 1827 Martha Elizabeth Leycester fl 1788 44 45 M edit Charlotte MacCarthy fl 1745 1768 Anna Maria Mackenzie fl 1782 1811 Miriam Malden fl 1804 1813 46 47 48 Delarivier Manley 1663 or c 1670 1724 Jean Marishall or Jane Marshall fl 1765 1788 Elizabeth Marsh 1735 1785 Mrs Martin fl 1798 1830 46 49 50 51 Mrs Mathews fl 1793 52 53 54 Eliza Kirkham Mathews nee Kirkham Strong 1772 1802 Charlotte Matthew fl 1793 1807 49 55 56 Anna Meades born c 1734 Elizabeth Meeke 1761 1826 Anna Millikin 1764 after 1849 Frances Mary Mills fl 1805 57 58 Margaret Minifie 1734 1803 Marianne Moore fl 1802 1803 46 49 59 60 Hannah More 1745 1833 Henrietta Mosse nee Rouviere died 1835 Agnes Musgrave fl 1795 1808 7 61 62 N edit Mary Anne Neri fl 1804 1808 63 Elizabeth Norman fl 1789 7 18 O edit Susannah Oakes fl 1805 64 65 Amelia Opie 1769 1853 9 Anne Ormsby fl 1804 1805 66 67 Sydney Owenson c 1781 1859 9 P edit Charlotte Palmer c 1762 1834 or after Alicia Tindal Palmer 1763 1822 Mary Elizabeth Parker fl 1795 1802 7 18 68 Catherine Parry died 1788 7 8 69 Eliza Parsons nee Phelp 1739 1811 70 Mrs F C Patrick fl 1797 1799 Lucy Peacock fl 1785 1816 Sarah Pearson 1767 1833 7 71 Frances Peck fl 1804 1805 72 73 M Peddle fl 1785 7 8 18 74 Janetta Philipps fl 1802 1811 75 Mary Pickar fl 1804 1805 76 77 Mary Pilkington nee Hopkins 1761 1839 Mary Pix 1666 1709 Arabella Plantin born c 1700 Anne Plumptre 1760 1818 Elizabeth Plunkett nee Gunning 1769 1823 Anna Maria Porter 1780 1832 Jane Porter 1776 1850 Elizabeth Purbeck fl 1789 1797 Jane Purbeck fl 1789 1802 Jael Pye nee Mendez c 1737 1782 R edit Ann Radcliffe nee Ward 1764 1823 Mary Ann Radcliffe 1746 1818 Eliza Ratcliffe fl 1808 49 78 79 Clara Reeve 1729 1807 Henrietta Rhodes fl 1811 1814 80 Mrs Rice fl 1803 1807 author of The Deserted Wife 1803 and Monteith 1806 49 46 81 Catherine Eliza Richardson nee Scott 1777 1853 Margaret Wade Roberts fl 1806 1809 82 83 Eliza Frances Robertson 1771 1805 84 85 Mary Robinson 1757 1800 Maria Elizabeth Robinson 1775 1818 Regina Maria Roche 1764 1845 86 Mrs Ross fl 1811 1817 87 Elizabeth Singer Rowe 1674 1737 Susanna Rowson nee Haswell 1762 1824 Elizabeth Ryves 1750 1797 S edit Charlotte Sanders Saunders fl 1787 7 8 18 Maria Grace Saffery 1773 1858 Honoria Scott fl 1810 1822 88 89 Sarah Scott 1723 1795 Catharine Selden fl 1797 Mary Shelley 1797 1851 Frances Sheridan 1724 1766 9 Sarah Sheriffe fl 1800 1803 90 Mary Martha Sherwood nee Butt 1775 1851 Mrs Showes fl 1797 1806 91 Caroline Sinclair fl 1809 92 93 Ann Masterman Skinn 1747 1789 Eleanor Sleath 1770 1847 94 Catharina Smith fl 1809 1815 Charlotte Smith 1749 1806 9 Julia Smith fl 1804 1805 95 96 Maria Lavinia Smith fl 1801 97 Elizabeth Somerville nee Helme 1774 1840 Elizabeth Isabella Spence 1768 1832 Sarah Emma Spencer fl 1788 7 8 18 Helen St Victor fl 1808 98 99 Louisa Sidney Stanhope fl 1806 1827 Miss Street fl 1790 1793 100 Elizabeth Strutt 1782 1867 Augusta Amelia Stuart fl 1808 1812 101 102 103 T edit Eliza Taylor fl 1779 1806 7 104 Jane Taylor 1783 1824 Maria Tharmott fl 1805 105 106 Ann Thomas fl 1784 1795 107 Elizabeth Thomas nee Wolferstan 1770 71 1855 Anna Harriet Thompson fl 1787 1807 46 49 108 109 110 Jane Timbury died c 1792 fl 1770 1791 Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins 1763 1828 Anne Trelawney fl 1805 111 112 Sarah Trimmer nee Kirby 1741 1810 Catharine Trotter Cockburn 1679 1749 Mary Tuck fl 1804 113 114 V edit Harriet Ventum fl 1798 1814 115 116 W edit Catherine George Ward c 1787 Jane Warton 1723 1809 Anna Weamys fl 1651 Helena Wells later Whitford 1761 1824 Jane West nee Iliffe 1758 1852 Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson 1779 1831 Helen Maria Williams c 1761 1827 Ann Wingrove fl 1795 1801 117 118 Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 1797 Sophia Woodfall 1780 1852 119 120 A Woodfin 1736 1784 7 8 121 Augusta Maria Woodthorpe fl 1809 122 Elizabeth Wright fl 1801 123 Mary Wroth nee Sidney 1587 1651 3 Y edit Ann Yearsley 1752 1806 Mrs R P M Yorke fl 1800 1805 124 Henrietta Maria Young fl 1809 125 126 Mary Julia Young fl 1788 1810 See also editList of biographical dictionaries of women writers in English List of early modern British women playwrights List of early modern British women poets List of female poets List of feminist poets List of Minerva Press authors List of poets List of women rhetoricians List of women writers Lists of writers Mothers of the Novel 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen Oxford period poetry anthologies Women Writers Project Women s writing literary category Notes edit Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page Referred to in E M Forster Bayley Catharine The Women s Print History Project 2019 Person ID 2768 Accessed 2023 01 02 Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page Bouverie Sophia The Women s Print History Project 2019 Person ID 2746 Accessed 2022 06 09 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Listed in Dale Spender s Mothers of the novel 100 good women writers before Jane Austen Pandora 1986 p 119ff Spender is notable for her work recuperating the work of women writers long out of print a b c d e f g h i j k Todd Janet ed A Dictionary of British and American women writers 1660 1800 Totowa N J Rowman amp Allanheld 1985 Internet Archive a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Republished in the Pandora Press Mothers of the Novel series 1986 1989 Bullock Mrs The Women s Print History Project 2019 Person ID 2242 Accessed 2022 06 09 Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page Sarah Butler Orlando Women s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present Cambridge UP Chawton House has a PDF of her Irish Tales 1716 C Lady Mary The Women s Print History Project 2019 Person ID 2672 Accessed 2022 06 09 Chawton House has a PDF of her The Offspring of Fancy 1778 Carver Mrs The Women s Print History Project 2019 Person ID 2228 Accessed 2022 06 09 Chawton House has a PDF of her The Old Woman 1800 a b c d e f g h i j k Turner Cheryl Living by the pen women writers in the eighteenth century Routledge 1992 Colpoys Mrs The Women s Print History Project 2019 Person ID 2624 Accessed 2022 06 09 Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page Croffts Mrs The Women s Print History Project 2019 Person ID 2319 Accessed 2022 06 09 Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page Draper Sarah The Women s Print History Project 2019 Person ID 2436 Accessed 2022 06 09 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