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
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.
Sydney Morgan
Irish novelist Lady Morgan wrote many other books and was one of the most vivid and hotly discussed literary figures of her generation.
Marthe-Marguerite de Caylus
French woman of fashion, one of the brilliant wits and social leaders of the court of Louis XIV.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Distinguished Austrian author. She wrote a number of novels depicting the life of the Austrian aristocracy in town and country, and in 1880 published a book of Parables, Fairy Tales and Poems.
Ida Laura Pfeiffer
1800s Austrian traveler whos books include Journey of a Viennese to the Holy Land, Journey to the Scandinavian North, and a Women’s Journey round the World.
Hannah More
English religious author and philanthropist.