British Writers - Women

This project is a place to gather together profiles of British born women writers of all genres. Those with bold links have profiles on Geni. Links that are not bold are to other sources.

How to add a link is explained in the attached document - Adding links to Geni profiles in projects.

A

• Kia Abdullah (b.1982) British novelist, writer and columnist.
• Valentine Ackland ( English Poet1906-1969)
• Elizabeth "Eliza" Acton (1799-1859) English Poet and cook
• Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805-1848) English Poet
• Kay Adshead (b 1954) British actress, poet, and playwright
• Grace Aguilar
• Joan Aiken
• Mary Alcock
• Maria Alford
• Mabel Esther Allan
• Marian Allen
• Margery Allingham (1904-1966 English crime writer
• Gillian Allnutt
• Laurence Alma-Tadema
• Elizabeth Frances Amherst (poet)
• Jane Anger
• Eva Anstruther
• Daisy Ashford
• Anne Askew (1520/1521 – 1546) English poet and Protestant condemned as a heretic - the only woman on record known to have been both tortured in the Tower of London and burnt at the stake.
• Mary Astell
• Judy Astley
• Mary Anne Atwood
• Harriet Auber
• Penelope Aubin
• Jane Austen
• Katherine Austen
• Valerie Austin
• Pam Ayres
• Shaista Aziz 1978-

B

• Beryl Bainbridge
• Sarah Bakewell
• Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) Scottish Poet
• Clara Lucas Balfour
• Isabella Banks
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) English poet and writer
• Judi Barrett
• Jane Barker
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Elizabeth Bath
• Lucy Elizabeth Bather
• Nina Beachcroft
• Laura Beatty
• Fran Beauman
• Patricia Beer
• Constance Beerbohm
• Aphra Behn (1640-1689) English playwright, poet
• Mary Hayley Bell
• Frances Bellerby
• Melissa Benn
• Stella Benson (1892–1933) was an English feminist, travel writer, and novelist.
• Elizabeth Bentley (writer)
• Juliana Berners
• Tamasin Berry-Hart
• Annie Besant
• Matilda Betham-Edwards
• Jo Beverley
• Elizabeth Bibesco
• Julie Bindel
• Carol Birch
• Clementina Black
• Malorie Blackman
• Emilia Aylmer Blake
• Regina Miriam Bloch
• Evelyn, Princess Blücher
• Enid Blyton
• Lilian Helen Bowes Lyon
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Anne Bradstreet
• Charlotte Mary Brame
• Barbarina Brand
• Hannah Brand
• Jane Brereton
• Audrey Brettle
• Vera Brittain
• Penny Broadhurst
• Lucy Broadwood
• Frances Freeling Broderip
• Anne Brontë
• Charlotte Brontë
• Emily Brontë
• Elizabeth Brooke (writer)
• Frances Brooke
• Sylvia Brett
• Jacintha Buddicom
• Rosina Bulwer Lytton
• Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849 –1924) English playwright and author
• Frances Burney (1776–1828)
• Sarah Burney
• Muriel St. Clare Byrne

C

• Ada Cambridge
• May Wedderburn Cannan
• Roxey Ann Caplin
• Angela Carter
• Elizabeth Carter
• Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
• Sheila Cassidy
• Jane Cavendish
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• Winifred Cawley
• Dorothea Celesia
• Sheila Chandra
• Laura Ormiston Chant
• Charlotte Charke
• Elizabeth Charles
• Maria Louisa Charlesworth
• Clara de Chatelain
• Erika Cheetham
• Nora Chesson
• Amy Childs
• Mary Cholmondeley
• Nazrin Choudhury
• Catherine Christian
• Agatha Christie
• Lady Mary Chudleigh
• Lucas Cleeve
• Lucy Clifford
• Caroline Clive
• Kitty Clive
• Kira Cochrane
• Catharine Trotter Cockburn
• Liza Cody
• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
• Sara Coleridge
• Mary Collier
• Mary Collyer
• Eliza Cook (1818-1889) English Poet
• Lady Diana Cooper
• Louise Cooper
• Wendy Cope
• Esther Copley
• Julia Copus
• Frances Cornford
• Jane Cornwallis
• Elizabeth Kerr Coulson
• Hannah Cowley (1743-1908) English Playwright
• Elizabeth Craven
• Louise Creighton
• Helen Cross
• Ida Crowe married name Pollock
• Annie Hall Cudlip
• Nancy Cunard
• Olive Custance

D

• Charlotte Dacre
• Sophie Dahl
• Donna Daley-Clarke
• Clemence Dane
• Alicia D'Anvers
• Julia Darling
• Elizabeth Daryush
• Janina David
• E. M. Delafield, was a prolific English author
• Mary Delany
• Judi Dench
• Ella Hepworth Dixon
• Judith Drake
• Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux
• Alice Dudeney
• Maureen Duffy (1933- ) English Poet, writer
• Nell Dunn
• Daphne du Maurier

E

• Mary Emma Ebsworth
• Jenny Eclair
• Emily Eden
• Elizabeth Egerton
• Sarah Fyge Egerton
• Elizabeth Eiloart
• Caroline Alice Elgar
• George Eliot
• Elizabeth Raffald
• Frances Minto Elliot
• Charlotte Elliott
• Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy
• Elizabeth Elstob
• Erastes (author)
• Barbara Erskine

F

• Violet Fane
• U. A. Fanthorpe
• Eleanor Farjeon
• Vicki Feaver
• Elaine Feinstein
• Margaret Fell
• Ellenor Fenn
• Daphne Fielding
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Penelope Fletcher
• Elena Forbes
• Mary Frampton
• Anthea Fraser
• Rose Fyleman

G

• Viola Garvin
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• Stella Gibbons
• Elinor Glyn
• Rumer Godden
• Salena Godden
• Jane Goldman
• Jane Gomeldon
• Jade Goody
• Catherine Gore
• Sheilah Graham Westbrook
• Sarah Grand
• Maxwell Gray
• Frances Greville
• Elizabeth Caroline Grey
• Jane Griffiths (poet)
• Elizabeth Grimston
• Harriet Grote
• Tanika Gupta

H

• Grace Eleanor Hadow
• Patricia Hall (novelist)
• Marion Rose Halpenny
• Cicely Hamilton
• Sarah Jane Hamilton
• Beatrice Harraden
• Phyllis Hartnoll
• Lucy Hastings
• Frances Ridley Havergal
• Mary Hays
• Eliza Haywood
• Lucy Herbert (writer)
• Phoebe Hesketh
• Georgette Heyer
• Susanna Highmore
• Miranda Hill
• Susan Hill
• Susan Hillmore
• Barbara Hofland
• Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
• Jane Holland
• Winifred Holtby
• Teresa Hooley
• Murry Hope
• Lizzie Hopley
• Frances Horovitz
• Mary Howitt
• Frieda Hughes
• Mary Vivian Hughes
• Rachel Hunter (author)
• Allegra Huston
• Catherine Hutton

I

• Elizabeth Inchbald
• Jean Ingelow

J

• Anna Jacobs
• Frances Jacson
• P. D. James
• Rosemary Hawley Jarman
• Gertrude Jekyll
• Elizabeth Jennings
• Geraldine Jewsbury
• Elizabeth Jocelin
• Pamela Hansford Johnson
• Sabrina Johnson
• Elizabeth Jolley
• Jenny Joseph
• Margaret Jourdain

K

• Frances Kazan
• Emily Sheila Kaye-Smith born on 4 February 1887 at Battle Lodge, 9 Dane Road, St Leonards. She was the eldest daughter of Edward Kaye-Smith, a local doctor. - writer
• Fanny Kemble
• Margery Kempe
• May Kendall
• Lena Kennedy
• Anne Killigrew
• Dorothy Kilner
• Mary Ann Kilner
• Harriet King (poet)
• Phyllis King
• Magdalen King-Hall
• Mary Kingsley
• Dorothy Koomson

L

• Lady Caroline Lamb
• Mary Lamb
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) English poet, novelist
• Emilia Lanier
• Angela Lansbury
• Joanna Laurens
• Mary Leapor
• Harriet Lee
• Sophia Lee
• Rosamond Lehmann
• Charlotte Lennox
• Doris Lessing
• Winifred Mary Letts
• Denise Levertov
• A. E. Levett
• Amy Levy
• Naomi Lewis
• Lolly Willowes
• Jane C. Loudon
• Ada Lovelace
• Mina Loy
• Jane Lumley
• Sylvia Lynd

M

• Rose Macaulay
• Mary (Molly) MacCarthy
• Julia Maitland
• Bathsua Makin
• Richmal Mangnall
• Delarivier Manley
• Mary E. Mann
• Ruth Manning-Sanders
• Elizabeth Marshall (cook)
• Ellen Buckingham Mathews
• Mary Meeke
• Louisa Anne Meredith
• Charlotte Mew
• Alice Meynell (1847-1922) English poet, essayist
• Grace Mildmay
• Barbara Mitchel-Hill
• R. J. Mitchell (author)
• Diana Mitford
• Jessica Mitford
• Mary Russell Mitford
• Nancy Mitford
• Geraldine Monk
• Elizabeth Montagu
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
• Florence Montgomery
• Susanna Moodie
• Susan Moody
• Hannah More
• Favell Lee Mortimer
• Iris Murdoch
• Anne Mustoe

N

• Constance Naden
• Violet Needham
• Frances Neville
• Adela Florence Nicolson
• Laura Noble
• Caroline Sheridan Norton (1808-1877) English poet, novelist
• Frances Norton, Lady Norton
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Norton_(author) Mary Norton] née Pearson (1903 – 1992), English author of children's books

O

• Olive Moore
• Edith Olivier
• Carola Oman
• Julian Orde
• Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi (1865 – 1947) British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She is most known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel.
• Alice Oswald
• Ouida
• Mary Oxlie

P

• Mez Packer
• Ruth Padel
• Christabel Pankhurst
• Emma Parker
• Harriet Parr
• Eliza Parsons
• George Paston
• Jill Paton Walsh
• Lucy Peacock
• Sarah Phelps
• Katherine Philips
• Ruth Picardie
• Sarah Piers
• Mary Pilkington
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
• Ruth Pitter
• Jocelyn Playfair
• Anne Plumptre
• Elizabeth Polack
• Elizabeth Polwheele
• Eve Pollard
• Eleanor Anne Porden
• Anna Maria Porter
• Jane Porter
• Beatrix Potter
• Rhoda Power
• Philippa Powys
• Nancy Price
• Diana Primrose
• May Probyn
• Adelaide Anne Procter

R

• Ann Radcliffe
• Dollie Radford
• Kathleen Raine
• Dachine Rainer
• Helen Rappaport
• Hannah Mary Rathbone
• Miss Read
• Clara Reeve
• Mary Renault
• Ruth Rendell
• Dorothy Miller Richardson (1873 – 1957) British author and journalist.
• Anne Ridler
• Denise Riley
• Mary Robinson (poet)
• Regina Maria Roche
• Margaret Roper
• Christina Rossetti
• Sheila Rowbotham
• Elizabeth Rowe
• J. K. Rowling
• Lucinda Roy
• Gillian Rubinstein
• Berta Ruck
• Rosie Rushton

S

• Lady Margaret Sackville
• Vita Sackville-West
• Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 – 1957)
• Roslyn Schwartz
• Jane Scott (theatre manager)
• Mary Scott (poet)
• E. J. Scovell
• Mary Seacole
• Anna Seward
• Anna Sewell (30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) author of Black Beauty
• Lady Jane Seymour
• Lady Margaret Seymour
• Olivia Shakespear
• Jo Shapcott
• Mary Shelly (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) the author of Frankenstein
• Louisa Henrietta Sheridan
• Ariane Sherine
• Mary Martha Sherwood
• Fredegond Shove
• Nerina Shute
• Mary Sidney
• Marjorie Lynette Sigley
• Una Lucy Silberrad
• May Sinclair
• Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
• Zoë Skoulding
• Mrs. Alexander Fraser
• C. Fox Smith
• Charlotte Turner Smith
• Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (1896 – 1990) English novelist and playwright. - novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians.
• Stevie Smith
• Laura Solon
• Caroline Anne Southey
• Ester Sowernam
• Dame Muriel Spark, DBE ( 1918 – 2006) Scottish novelist
• Rachel Speght
• Lillian Spender
• Patricia St. John
• Pauline Stainer
• Vera Stanley Alder
• Mariana Starke
• Barbara, Lady Stephen
• Anne Stevenson
• Mary Stewart (novelist)
• A. M. W. Stirling
• Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne
• Agnes Strickland
• Lady Louisa Stuart
• Rosemary Sutcliff
• Tabitha Suzuma
• Steph Swainston
• Netta Syrett
• Mitzi Szereto

T

• Catherine Tate
• Ann Taylor (poet)
• Jane Taylor (poet)
• Elizabeth Thomas (poet/novelist)
• Flora Thompson
• Rosemary Tonks
• Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
• Carol Topolski
• Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Anna Trapnell
• P. L. Travers
• Iris Tree
• Viola Tree
• Violet Trefusis
• Rose Tremain
• Sarah Trimmer

U

• Jenny Uglow
• Evelyn Underhill
• Florence Kate Upton

V

• Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
• Margaret Veley
• Frances Parthenope Verney
• Elizabeth Vesey
• Dorothy Vicary
• Salley Vickers

W

• Rekha Waheed
• Priscilla Wakefield
• Annie Louisa Walker
• Mary Augusta Ward
• Rosamund Marriott Watson
• Camilla Way
• Anna Weamys
• Mary Webb
• Augusta Webster
• Sue Welfare
• Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington
• Jane West
• Rebecca West - Journalist and Novelist
• Jacqueline Wheldon
• Marjorie Whitaker
• Dorothy White
• Florence White
• Maggy Whitehouse
• Kit Whitfield
• Isabella Whitney
• Anna Wickham
• Harriette Wilson
• Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
• Claudia Winkleman
• Jacqueline Winspear
• John Strange Winter
• Jane Wiseman
• Mary Wollstonecraft (Mary Godwin 1759-1797)
• Ellen Wood (author)
• Margaret Louisa Woods
• Virginia Woolf
• Dorothy Wordsworth
• Jennifer Worth 25 September 1935 – 31 May 2011
• Lady Mary Wroth
• Petronella Wyatt 1968-
• Rachel Wyatt 1929-
• Evie Wyld

Y

• Jane Yardley
• Ann Yearsley
• Margaret Yorke
• E. H. Young