List of women in Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
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The following women writers have an individual entry in the Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature, ed. Claire Buck (1992). (Note that the spelling of names below may, by following that in the Bloomsbury Guide, give a misleading impression that no Wikipedia entry exists for the individual in question).
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- Malak 'Abdel 'Aziz
- Laure d'Abrantès
- Frances Aburgavennie
- Doña Angela de Acevedo
- Catherine Obianuju AcholonuCatherine Obianuju AcholonuProf. Catherine Obianuju Acholonu is a Nigerian writer, researcher and former lecturer on African Cultural and Gender Studies...
- Kathy AckerKathy AckerKathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S...
- Louise Ackermann
- Valentine AcklandValentine AcklandValentine Ackland was an English poet, an important figure in the emergence of modernism in twentieth-century British poetry.-Life:...
- Soledad Acosta de Samper
- Dora AcuñaDora AcuñaDora Gómez Bueno de Acuña was a Paraguayan poet and journalist.She was the first female Paraguayan poet to be known for her erotic poetry.-Works:*Flor de caña , 1940*Barro celeste , 1943...
- Juliette AdamJuliette AdamJuliette Adam Juliette Adam Juliette Adam (4 October 1836, Verberie (Oise) – 23 August 1936, Callian (Var), also known by her maiden name Juliette Lambert, was a French author and feminist.- Biography :...
- Abigail Smith Adams
- Glenda AdamsGlenda AdamsGlenda Emilie Adams was an Australian novelist and short story writer, probably best known as the winner of the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral...
- Hannah AdamsHannah AdamsHannah Adams was a Christian author, born in Medfield, Massachusetts and died in Brookline. She was the first woman in the United States who made literature a profession.-Biography:...
- Sarah Flower Adams
- Patsy Adam-SmithPatsy Adam-SmithPatricia Jean "Patsy" Adam-Smith AO, OBE was an Australian author, historian and servicewoman. She was a prolific writer on a range of subjects covering 'history, folklore and the preservation of national traditions', and also wrote her autobiography in two parts...
- Karen Fleur AdcockFleur AdcockKareen Fleur Adcock , CNZM, OBE is a poet and an editor of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England.-Life and career:...
- Adelaide de Condet
- Adelaide of Louvain
- Anne-Marie Adiaffi
- Opal Palmer AdissaOpal Palmer AdisaOpal Palmer Adisa is a Jamaica-born writer, artist and teacher. Since 1993, Opal Palmer Adisa has taught literature and served as Chair of the Ethnic Studies/Cultural Diversity Program at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. Dr. Adisa has two masters degrees from San Francisco...
- Etel AdnanEtel AdnanEtel Adnan is a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist.In 2003 MELUS, the journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, called Adnan "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today."She has said, "As for any...
- Etta Palm d'Aedelers
- AElflaed, Abbess of Whitby
- AesaraAesaraAesara of Lucania was a Pythagorean philosopher, who wrote a work On Human Nature, of which a fragment is preserved by Stobaeus.-Life:...
, 4th century BC - Vittoria Aganoor Pompilj
- Agnes (Prioress) of Castle Hedingham, 12th century
- 'Adalet Agoglu (born 1929)
- Marjorie AgosinMarjorie AgosínMarjorie Agosín is an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, activist, and professor. She is a prolific author: her published books, including those she has written as well as those she has edited, number over eighty...
(born 1955) - Sor María de ÁgredaMaria de AgredaMaría Fernández Coronel y Arana, Abbess of Ágreda or, known in religion as Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda , also known as the Lady in Blue and the Blue Nun, was born, and died, in Ágreda, a town located in the province of Soria, Castile and León, Spain...
(1602–1655) - Agrippina the YoungerAgrippina the YoungerJulia Agrippina, most commonly referred to as Agrippina Minor or Agrippina the Younger, and after 50 known as Julia Augusta Agrippina was a Roman Empress and one of the more prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty...
(1st century AD) - Grace AguilarGrace AguilarGrace Aguilar was an English novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion. She was delicate from childhood, and early showed great interest in history, especially Jewish history...
(1816–1847) - Mirta AguirreMirta AguirreMirta Aguirre or Mirta Aguirre Carreras was a Cuban poet, novelist, journalist and political activist. She has been called "the most important female academic and woman of letters in post-revolutionary Cuba".-Life:...
(born 1912) - Delmira AgustiniDelmira AgustiniDelmira Agustini , a Uruguayan poet, is considered one of the greatest female Latin American poets of the early 20th century.-Background:Born in Montevideo, the daughter of Italian immigrants, Agustini was a precocious child...
(1886–1914) - Charlotte Elisabeth Sophie Louise Wilhelmine von Ahlefeld (1781–1849)
- Isle Aichinger (born 1921)
- Ama Ata AidooAma Ata AidooProfessor Ama Ata Aidoo, née Christina Ama Aidoo is a Ghanaian author and playwright.-Life:She grew up in a Fante royal household, the daughter of Nana Yaw Fama, chief of Abeadzi Kyiakor, and Maame Abasema. She was sent by her father to the Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast from 1961 to 1964...
(born 1942) - Joan AikenJoan AikenJoan Delano Aiken MBE was an English novelist. She was born in Rye, East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father, American poet Conrad Aiken , her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge and her brother John Aiken Joan Delano Aiken MBE (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English novelist....
(born 1924) - Lucy AikinLucy AikinLucy Aikin , born at Warrington, England into a distinguished literary family of prominent Unitarians, was a historical writer.-Family and education:...
(1781–1864) - Aimuc de Castelnou (early 13th century)
- AïshaAishaAisha bint Abu Bakr also transcribed as was Muhammad's favorite wife...
(born 1942) - Charlotte-Elisabeth Aïcha Aïssé (?1694-1733)
- Grace AkelloGrace AkelloGrace Akello is a Ugandan poet, essayist, folklorist and politician.-Life:An Iteso born near Soroti, Akello studied English and history at Makarere University. She worked as a magazine editor in Kenya and Tanzania before travelling to England in 1981. A mother of four sons, she and her second...
- Sonja Berta Maria Hammarberg Akeson (1926–1977)
- Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadúlina (born 1937)
- Akimoto Matsuyo (born 1911)
- Gülten AkinGülten AkinGülten Akın is a female poet, born in 1933. Her poetry is considered culturally significant to Turkey.-External links:* at Lyrikline.org, with audio, Turkish text, and translation into German....
(born 1933) - Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya (died ca. 802)
- Layia al-'Akhyaliyya (died ca. 700)
- Caterina AlbertCaterina AlbertCaterina Albert i Paradís , better known by her penname Víctor Català, was a Catalan writer who participated in the Modernism movement and was the author of one of the signature works of the genre, Solitud...
(1869–1966) - Marie-Madeleine Bonafous d'Albert (18th century)
- Sophie Albrecht (1757–1840)
- Jeanne III d'Albret (1528–1572)
- Sóror Marianna AlcoforadoMarianna AlcoforadoSóror Mariana Alcoforado , was a Portuguese nun, living in the convent of the Poor Ladies in Beja, Portugal....
(1640–1723) - Gloria Alcorta (born 1915)
- Louisa May AlcottLouisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Women was set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868...
(1832–1888) - Josefina R. Aldecoa (1926–2011)
- Bess Streeter AldrichBess Streeter AldrichBess Streeter Aldrich was an American author.Bess Streeter was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa. After graduating from Iowa State Normal School, she taught school at several locations in the west, later returning to Cedar Falls to earn an advanced degree in education...
(1881–1954) - Claribel AlegríaClaribel AlegríaClara Isabel Alegría Vides is a Nicaraguan poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist who was a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central America. She writes under the pseudonym Claribel Alegría.-Early life:...
(born 1924) - Lidiia Alekseevna Alekséeva (born 1909)
- Sibilla AleramoSibilla AleramoSibilla Aleramo was an Italian author and feminist best known for her autobiographical depictions of life as a woman in late 19th century Italy.- Life and career :Born Rina Faccio in Alessandria, Piedmont...
(1876–1960) - Meena AlexanderMeena AlexanderMeena Alexander is an internationally acclaimed poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander lives and works in New York City, where she is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College in the and at the CUNY Graduate Center in the...
(born 1951) - Elli Alexiou (1898-?)
- Estrella AlfonEstrella AlfónEstrella D. Alfon was a well-known Filipina author who wrote almost exclusively in English. As a Filipino writer, Estrella Alfon lived her life of being a prolific writer who hailed from Cebu. Because of unwavering and poor health, she could manage only an A. A. degree from the University of the...
(1917–1982) - Edna AlfordEdna AlfordEdna Alford is a Canadian author and editor. As a writer she is known for the collections A Sleep Full of Dreams and The Garden of Eloise Loon. She has also won the Marian Engel Award and the Gerald Lampert Award...
(born 1947) - Hauwa Ali
- 'Ulfah al-Idlibi (born 1921)
- Margarita Iosifovna Aligér (born 1915)
- AlineAline-People:*Aline Barnsdall , American oil heiress*Aline Bernstein , American costume designer and co-founder of the Museum of Costume Art*Aline Chrétien , wife of former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien...
(12th century) - Fatima AliyeFatma Aliye TopuzFatma Aliye Topuz , aka simply Fatma Aliye or Fatma Aliye Hanım, was a Turkish novelist, columnist, essayist, women's rights activist and humanitarian...
(1862–1936) - Zaynab AlkaliZaynab AlkaliZaynab Alkali is a Nigerian novelist, poet, short story writer.-Works:*The stillborn, Longman, 1984, ISBN 9780582786004*The virtuous woman, Longman Nigeria, 1987, ISBN 9789781395895...
- al-KhansaAl-KhansaTumāḍir bint ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥarth ibn al-Sharīd al-Sulamīyah , usually simply referred to as al-Khansā’ was a 7th century Arabic poet. She was born and raised in the Najd region...
(died 646) - Hortense Allart (1801–1879)
- Charlotte Vale AllenCharlotte Vale AllenCharlotte Vale-Allen is a writer of contemporary fiction. She lived in the United Kingdom from 1961 to 1964 working as a singer and actress. She emigrated to the United States in 1966 following a brief return to Canada. After marrying Walter Bateman Allen Jr...
(born 1941) - Pamela Kay Allen (born 1934)
- Paula Gunn AllenPaula Gunn AllenPaula Gunn Allen was a Native American poet, literary critic, lesbian activist, and novelist.Born Paula Marie Francis in Albuquerque, Allen grew up in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land grant village bordering the Laguna Pueblo reservation...
(born 1939) - Isabel AllendeIsabel AllendeIsabel Allende Llona is a Chilean writer with American citizenship. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts , which have been commercially successful...
(born 1942) - Phyllis Shand AllfreyPhyllis Shand AllfreyPhyllis Byam Shand Allfrey was a West Indian writer, socialist activist, newspaper editor and politician of the island of Dominica in the Caribbean....
(1915–1986) - Margery Louise Allingham (1904–1966)
- Gay Allison (born 1943)
- Dona Filipa de Almada (15th century)
- Nazik al-Mala'ika (1923–1992)
- Júlia Lopes de AlmeidaJúlia Lopes de AlmeidaJúlia Valentina da Silveira Lopes de Almeida was a Brazilian author and considered to be the first woman to have achieved a national reputation in Brazil for her writing. Her works dealt with the abolitionist movement in Brazil.-Life:...
(1862–1934) - Ruth AlmogRuth Almog-Life:Almog was born 15 May 1936 in Petah Tikva, Israel to parents who immigrated from Hamburg in 1933. She studied at David Yellin Teachers College, and at Tel Aviv University...
(born 1934) - Mary Gould Almy (1735–1808)
- Carmen de Alonso (born 1909)
- Dora AlonsoDora AlonsoDora Alonso is a Cuban journalist and writer who has worked in both print and radio. She has written novels, short stories, poetry, theater and children's literature...
(born 1910) - Marquesa de Alorna (Leonor de Almeida Portugal de Lorena e Lencestre) (1750-?1839)
- Concha Alós (born 1922)
- Su'ad al-Sabah (born 1942)
- Ghada al-SammanGhada al-SammanGhada al-Samman is an Arab Syrian writer, journalist and novelist born in Damascus in 1942 to a prominent and conservative Damascene family, she is remotely related to Nizar Qabbani the famous poet. Her father was Dr. Ahmed al-Samman, PhD, a president of the Syrian University...
(born 1942) - Hanan al-ShaykhHanan al-ShaykhHanan al-Shaykh is a Lebanese author of contemporary Arab women's literature.- Biography :Hanan al-Shaykh's family background is that of a strict Shi'a...
(born 1945) - 'Aisha 'Esmat al-Taymuriyya (1840–1902)
- Layla al-'Uthman (born 1945)
- Luisa Isabel Alvarez de Toledo (Duchess of Medina Sidonia) (born 1936)
- Mariá Álvarez Rios (born 1919)
- Latifa al-ZayyatLatifa al-ZayyatLatifa al-Zayyat was born the 8 August 1923 in the city of Damietta in Egypt and is known as an activist and writer. She earned her Bachelors degree in English in 1946 from Cairo University and earned her PhD at the same university in 1957...
(born 1923) - Ifi AmadiumeIfi AmadiumeDr. Ifi Amadiume is a Nigerian poet, anthropologist and essayist. She joined the Religion Department of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, U.S. in 1993.-Biography:...
- Narcisa Amália (1852–1914)
- AmarilisAmarilisAmarilis is a television actress. She made her debut as Patty Gilbert in the syndicated TV series Sweet Valley High and has guest starred on the TV series The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. Amarilis portrayed the Marvel Comics superheroine Monet "M" St. Croix in the television movie Generation...
(17th century) - Ambia
- Mary Cary Ambler (fl.FloruitFloruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
1770) - Adibah Amin (born 1936)
- Guadalupe Amor (born 1920)
- Katherine Amory (1731–1777)
- Djamila Amrane (born 1941)
- Fadhma Ait Mansur AmroucheFadhma Aït MansourMarguerite-Fadhma Aït Mansour Amrouche is the mother of writers Jean Amrouche and Taos Amrouche....
(1882–1967) - Marie-Louise Amrouche (or Taos Amrouche) (1913–1976)
- Loula Anagnostaki (born 1940)
- 'Anan (died ca. 846)
- Marguerite Ancelot (1792–1875)
- Barbara Anderson (born 1926)
- Doris AndersonDoris AndersonDoris Hilda Anderson, was a Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist.She was born in Calgary, Alberta as Hilda Doris Buck. She attended Crescent Heights High School and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alberta in 1945...
(born 1921) - Jessica AndersonJessica AndersonJessica Margaret Queale Anderson was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She won several awards and has been published in Britain and the United States.-Life:...
- Linda Anderson (born 1949)
- Lou Andreas-SaloméLou Andreas-SaloméLou Andreas-Salomé was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and author. Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships with a broad array of distinguished western luminaries, including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Rilke.- Early years :Lou Salomé was born in St...
(1861–1937) - Sophia de Mello Breyner AndresenSophia de Mello Breyner AndresenSophia de Mello Breyner Andresen was an award-winning Portuguese poet and writer.Sophia, as she is often referred to in Portugal, was born in Porto to a wealthy aristocratic family. She inherited the surname 'Andresen' from her paternal grandfather, a Danish merchant...
(born 1919) - Blanca AndreuBlanca Andreu-Life:She grew up in Orihuela, where her family still resides, and attended El Colegio de Jesus-Maria de San Agustin, followed by studies in philology in Murcia. At age 20, she moved to Madrid without formally completing her education...
- Maya AngelouMaya AngelouMaya Angelou is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly...
(born 1928) - Katerina Anghelaki-RookeKaterina Anghelaki-Rooke-Life:She received grants from the Ford Foundation in 1972 and 1975.She studied at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.She was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in the United States in 1980 to 1981....
(born 1939) - Maria Angels AngladaMaria Angels AngladaMaria Angels Anglada was a Catalan poet and novelist. She was born in Vic, Spain in 1930. She received a degree in Classical Philology at the University of Barcelona. She died in 1999. Her first novel, Les Closes, won the Josep Pla Prize...
(born 1930) - Anna Mitrofanovna Anichkova (1868–1935)
- Nini Roll AnkerNini Roll AnkerNini Roll Anker was a Norwegian novelist and playwright. She was born in Molde, as the daughter of stipendiary magistrate and later member of parliament and minister Ferdinand Nicolai Roll. She was married twice, first to land owner Peter Martin Anker, and later to engineer Johan August Anker...
(1873–1942) - Queen Annabella of ScotlandAnnabella of ScotlandAnnabella Stewart was the youngest daughter of King James I and Joan Beaufort.-Early life:Annabella was presumably named after her father's mother, Annabella Drummond. She was the youngest of the six daughters and two sons of James I and Joan Beaufort...
(late 14th century) - Anna von MunzingenAnna von MunzingenAnna von Munzingen was a German mystic of the 14th century. She wrote a "chronicle" of the experiences of her nuns.-Bibliography:...
- Mathilde Franziska AnnekeMathilde Franziska AnnekeMathilde Franziska Anneke was a German feminist, socialist, and newspaper editor, owner, and reporter. Born Mathilde Franziska Geisler, her first marriage to Alfred von Tabouillot, a rich wine merchant, ended in divorce...
(1817–1884) - Nina Pavlovna Ánnenkova-Bernár (1859/64-1933)
- Anne of BohemiaAnne of BohemiaAnne of Bohemia was Queen of England as the first wife of King Richard II. A member of the House of Luxembourg, she was the eldest daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and Elizabeth of Pomerania....
(1366–1394) - Ol'ga Nikolaevna Anstei (1912–1985)
- Lalitambika AntarjanamLalitambika AntarjanamLalithambika Antharjanam , was an author in Malayalam. She was born in Kottavattom Kottarakara, Kerala to a literary family - both her parents were poets - but she herself had little formal education. In 1927, she was married to Narayanan Nambudiri...
(born 1909) - Susan Brownell Anthony (1820–1906)
- Marie-Henriette-Anne Payan Delestang, Marquise d'Antremont (1746–1802)
- Anyte (4th century BC)
- Gloria E. AnzaldúaGloria E. AnzaldúaGloria Evangelina Anzaldúa was considered a leading scholar of Chicano cultural theory and Queer theory. She loosely based her most well-known book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza on her life growing up on the Mexican-Texas border and incorporated her lifelong feelings of social and...
- Aoki Yayohi (born 1927)
- Leila Aouchal (born 1937)
- Anjana AppachanaAnjana AppachanaAnjana Appachana is a novelist of Indian origin who lives in the United States. She has written a book of short stories titled Incantations and a novel titled Listening Now.-Biography:...
- Elena Ivanovna Apréleva (1846–1923)
- D'Tullia Aragona (1510–1556)
- Nezihe Araz (born 1922)
- Liwayway ArceoLiwayway ArceoLiwayway A. Arceo was a multi-awarded Tagalog fictionist, journalist, radio scriptwriter and editor from the Philippines.Arceo authored a number of well-received novels, such as Canal de la Reina and Titser...
(born 1924) - Mademoiselle ArchambaultArchambaultArchambault, a Quebecor Media company, is the largest music retailer in the province of Quebec, Canada, as well as a major retailer of books, DVDs, periodicals, musical instruments, sheet music, games, toys and gift ideas. Its e-commerce site, www.archambault.ca, is the largest French-language...
(ca. 1724 - ?) - Maria Archer (born 1905)
- Clementina Arderiu (born 1899)
- Hannah ArendtHannah ArendtHannah Arendt was a German American political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact...
(1906–1975) - AreteAreteAreté is the term meaning "virtue" or "excellence", from Greek ἈρετήArete may also be used:*as a given name of persons or things:**Queen Arete , a character in Homer's Odyssey.***197 Arete, an asteroid....
(5th-4th century BC) - Aristodama
- Margarida Aritzeta (born 1953)
- Ariyoshi Sawako (1931–1984)
- Péronnelle d'Armentières (ca. 1340 - ?)
- Rebecca Agatha ArmourRebecca Agatha ArmourRebecca Agatha Armour was a Canadian teacher and novelist. Her novel Lady Rosamond's secret described Fredericton life in the 1820s; Marguerite Verne depicted life in Saint John, New Brunswick....
(1846–1891) - Jeannette ArmstrongJeannette ArmstrongJeannette Armstrong is an Okanagan Canadian author, educator, artist, and activist. She was born and grew up on the Penticton Indian reserve in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley...
- Angélique ArnaudAngélique ArnaudAngélique Arnaud was a French novelist and feminist writer.Arnaud travelled to Paris from the provinces, and involved herself in feminist circles around Henri de Saint-Simon. As well as her novels, she wrote articles and polemical pamphlets...
(1799–1884) - Mère Agnès Arnauld (1593–1671)
- Mère Jacqueline Marie Angélique Arnauld (1591–1661)
- Bettina von ArnimBettina von ArnimBettina von Arnim , born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano, was a German writer and novelist....
(1785–1859) - Christine ArnothyChristine ArnothyChristine Arnothy is a French writer. She has written numerous books, including J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir . It is a book following her life and escape from Budapest during the Second World War.She left Hungary, crossing the border with her parents...
(born 1930) - Harriette Simpson ArnowHarriette Simpson ArnowHarriette Arnow was an American novelist, who lived in Kentucky and Michigan. Arnow has been called an expert on the people of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, but she herself loved cities and spent crucial periods of her life in Cincinnati, and Detroit.-Early life and education:She was born...
(1908–1986) - Geraldine Aron (born 1941)
- Rosa Maria Arquimbau (born 1910)
- Enriqueta Arvelo LarrivaEnriqueta Arvelo LarrivaEnriqueta Arvelo Larriva was a Venezuelan poet, "one of the founders of women's poetry in Venezuela and one of the country's principal avant-garde poets"....
(1886–1963) - Margaret Howe Ascham (?1535-1590)
- Elizabeth AshbridgeElizabeth AshbridgeElizabeth Ashbridge was an 18th century Quaker minister born in Cheshire, England.-Early life:Elizabeth was born in 1713 in the town of Middlewich in Cheshire, England to Thomas and Mary Sampson. Thomas was a surgeon on sea vessels and Mary was a pious follower of the Church of England...
(1713–1755) - Daisy AshfordDaisy AshfordDaisy Ashford, full name Margaret Mary Julia Ashford was an English writer who is most famous for writing The Young Visiters, a novella concerning the upper class society of late 19th century England, when she was just nine years old. The novella was published in 1919, preserving her juvenile...
(1881–1972)