Curated category
English women novelists
- Virginia WoolfAdeline Virginia Woolf entered the world on the 25th of January 1882 within a grand house in South Kensington, London. Her father was Sir Leslie Stephen, a…
- Jane AustenJane Austen arrived in the world on the 16th of December 1775 within the quiet valley of Steventon, Hampshire. Her father George Austen wrote to his wife…
- George EliotMary Ann Evans was born on the 22nd of November 1819 at South Farm, part of the Arbury Hall estate in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
- Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft was born on the 27th of April 1759 in Spitalfields, London. Her father Edward John Wollstonecraft squandered a comfortable family income…
- Sheila Kaye-SmithSheila Kaye-Smith entered the world on the 4th of February 1887 in St Leonards-on-Sea. Her father worked as a physician and her mother was his wife.
- Julie AndrewsJulia Elizabeth Wells arrived in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, on the 1st of October 1935. Her mother Barbara Ward Wells had married Edward Charles Ted Wells in…
- Diana Wynne JonesDiana Wynne Jones was born on the 16th of August 1934 in London. Her fifth birthday arrived just as World War II began. Shortly after that celebration, she…
- Alison WeirAlison Weir grew up in Westminster, London. Her mother was a genuinely good person with heaps of integrity and strength of character.
- Harriet MartineauHarriet Martineau was born on the 12th of June 1802 in Norwich, England. Her mother Elizabeth hired a wet nurse to feed her infant daughter because she could…
- Penelope GilliattPenelope Gilliatt was born on the 25th of March 1932 in London. Her parents were Cyril Conner and Marie Stephanie Douglass, both hailing from Newcastle upon…