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Brigid Brophy (Brigid Antonia Brophy, Lady Levey, 12 June 1929 – 7 August 1995) was a British writer. The only daughter of the Anglo-Irish novelist John Brophy, Brigid…… Read more “Brigid Brophy”
Category: Menagerie of Authors
Júlia Lopes de Almeida
Júlia Lopes de Almeida (Julia Valentina da Silva Lopes de Almeida, September 24, 1862 – May 30, 1934) was a Brazilian writer. Born in Rio de Janeiro,…… Read more “Júlia Lopes de Almeida”
Frances Burney
Frances Burney (also known as Fanny Burney; married name Madame d’Arblay; 13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840) was an English writer. While her sisters were sent…… Read more “Frances Burney”
Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux (born Annie Duchesne; 1 September 1940) is a French author. She attended a Lycée and studied at the Universities of Rouen and Bordeaux. Ernaux became a certified teacher, then…… Read more “Annie Ernaux”
Lydia Chukovskaya
Lydia Chukovskaya (Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya/ Ли́дия Корне́евна Чуко́вская, 24 March 1907 – February 8, 1996) was a Russian writer. Born in Helsingfors (now Helsinki), which was then…… Read more “Lydia Chukovskaya”
Albertine Sarrazin
Albertine Sarrazin (17 September 1937 – 10 July 1967) was a French-Algerian author. She was abandoned shortly after her birth, in Algiers, and put in the care…… Read more “Albertine Sarrazin”
Emily Holmes Coleman
Emily Coleman (1899–1974) was an American writer. Her mother passed away when Emily was a child, and she was sent to a boarding school. She then attended…… Read more “Emily Holmes Coleman”
Sarah Grand
Sarah Grand (nom de plume of Frances Elisabeth McFall, née Bellenden Clarke, 10 June 1854 – 12 May 1943) was an Anglo-Irish writer. She was born in…… Read more “Sarah Grand”
Penelope Mortimer
Penelope Mortimer (Penelope Ruth Mortimer, née Fletcher, 19 September 1918 – 19 October 1999) was a Welsh writer. She learned secretarial skills at the Central Educational Bureau…… Read more “Penelope Mortimer”
Kanoko Okamoto
Kanoko Okamoto (岡本 かの子, pen name of Ohnuki Kano, 1 March 1889 – 18 February 1939) was a Japanese author. She was home-tutored in music, calligraphy, traditional dance,…… Read more “Kanoko Okamoto”
Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was an Anglo-Irish author. Born in Oxfordshire, Maria moved to Ireland with her father, when she was five…… Read more “Maria Edgeworth”
Natalia Ginzburg
Natalia Ginzburg (née Levi; 14 July 1916 – 7 October 1991) was an Italian writer. She was educated at home, and later attended the liceo Alfieri in Turin. In 1933, Ginzburg published…… Read more “Natalia Ginzburg”
Sei Shōnagon (清少納言)
Sei Shōnagon (清少納言, c. 966–1017/1025) was a Japanese author and a court lady during the middle Heian period. She was born in a family of middle-ranking courtiers,…… Read more “Sei Shōnagon (清少納言)”
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (née Barstow, May 6, 1823 – August 1, 1902) was an American writer. She studied at Wheaton Seminary, Norton, Massachusetts. In 1852, she got married to the critic…… Read more “Elizabeth Drew Stoddard”
Yūko Tsushima
Yūko Tsushima (pen name of Satoko Tsushima, 30 March 1947 – 18 February 2016) was a Japanese writer. Her father, the writer Osamu Dazai, committed suicide together with his lover,…… Read more “Yūko Tsushima”
Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett (born Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett, September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American writer. She studied at Berwick Academy, Maine, and started her writing…… Read more “Sarah Orne Jewett”
Dorothy Baker
Dorothy Baker (born Dorothy Alice Dodds; April 21, 1907– June 17, 1968) was an American writer. Baker attended college at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduation in 1929,…… Read more “Dorothy Baker “
Graham Greene
Graham Greene (Henry Graham Greene, 2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer. He studied history at Balliol College, Oxford. After graduation, in 1925, Greene worked…… Read more “Graham Greene”
