Marie de Sévigné
French writer, celebrated for her letters, chiefly written to her daughter
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Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova
Russian litterateur, and one of the leaders of the party that raised Catherine II to the throne
Anne Askew
Protestant martyr
Marie Corelli
Popular English novelist
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
American philanthropist and author known for her temperance reform, and in behalf of the advancement of women.
Anne Killigrew
English artist and poetess
Luise Mühlbach
German novelist who wrote more than fifty novels
Louise d’Épinay
French writer whose Memoirs and Correspondence give a true picture of the refined but corrupt manners which prevailed among the higher classes in France during the reign of Louis XV.
Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler
Swedish realistic novelist and dramatist
Maria Edgeworth
Irish novelist, whose stories represent a distinct stop in the development of fiction in English and are progenitors of similar productions including Sir Walter Scott’s novels of Scottish life.