American novelist, known under the pen name of Elizabeth Wetherell. She wrote a number of stories, usually with moral teachings, and collaborated with her sister Anna, but she is chiefly remembered for her very successful novel, The Wide, Wide World, published in 1851.
English writer
English novelist and biographer
Biruta Skujeniece often appeared on the stage of the Latvian theatre, but she made a name for herself chiefly as an elocutionist.
Irish-American theatre actress
English author.
English author and eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray
American poet, journalist, and writer of children’s stories
Canadian journalist, agriculturalist, Women’s rights activist and suffragist.
In addition to being one of the country’s bestselling authors of her day and having three silent film adaptations of her novels, Johnson was a women’s rights advocate.