Nuala O’Faolain
Irish journalist, writer and feminist
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Mary Virginia Terhune
Marion Harland was a writer of novels, short stories, biographies, travel narratives, cookbooks, and domestic manuals whose career stretched across seven decades of sectional conflict and great change in American life.
Sarah Ann Brock
Sarah Ann Brock, a writer who often published under the pseudonym Virginia Madison, published numerous editorials, historical articles, reviews, essays, letters, travel sketches, short stories, biographies, and translations in her career.
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Frances Parkinson Keyes was a prolific journalist, editor, memoirist, and biographer, but was most well known as a bestselling novelist.
Molly Elliot Seawell
Molly Elliot Seawell was the author of forty books, including regional fiction, romances, books for boys (primarily nautical stories), and nonfiction.
Nancy Hale
Nancy Hale was a prolific author of short stories, novels, nonfiction, plays, and memoirs.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
Prolific writer of biographical studies, poetry, and a temperance novel.
Rosemary Daniell
A writer and a teacher of writing, Rosemary Daniell is known for her provocative poems and memoirs.
Ruby Altizer Roberts
Ruby Altizer Roberts is the author of two collections of poetry, three memoirs, a children’s book, and a genealogy. She was named Virginia’s first female poet laureate in 1950 and, until 1994, was the only woman to have held the post.
Virginia Moore
Poet, biographer, and scholar, perhaps best known for her work Virginia Is a State of Mind (1942), which has been described as the “biography of a state.”