| First Name | Last Name | Bio |
Gender |
Occupation | Born | Died | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| View Record |
Rebecca |
West |
Rebecca West was born Cicely Isabel Fairfield in 1892. |
Female | Critic, Journalist, Writer | 1892 Dec 21st | 1983 Mar 15th |
| View Record |
E. M. |
Delafield |
Although best known for Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930), and its humorous portrait of a harassed, self-deprecating housewife, Delafield wore many other hats in her relatively short but busy life. |
Female | Biographer, Critic, Journalist, Novelist, Travel Writer | 19 June 1890 | 11 December 1943 |
| View Record |
Vita |
Sackville-West |
Victoria [Vita] Mary Sackville-West, poet, novelist, and horticultural journalist, was born on 9th March 1892 at Knole, near Sevenoaks, and died on 2nd June 1962 at Sissinghurst. |
Female | Translator, Writer | 1892 Mar 9th | 1962 Jun 2nd |
| View Record |
Willa |
Muir |
Willa Muir, née Wilhelmina Johnston Anderson, was called Minnie as a child and sometimes published under the name Agnes Neill Scott. |
Female | Translator, Writer | 1890 Mar 13th | 1970 May 22nd |
| View Record |
Sylva |
Norman |
Best known for work on Shelley. Married Edmund Blunden in 1933 (after her HP book published, 1929), divorced 1945 (no children). |
Female | Critic, Writer | 1906 | 1971 |
| View Record |
Caroline Jane Mary |
Hubback |
C.J.M. Hubback worked as a translator for Sigmund Freud in the 1920s. Beyond this, little else was known until recently. |
Female | Translator, Writer | 1871 Aug 17th | 1959 |
| View Record |
Angelica |
Garnett |
Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell) was born on December 25th, 1918 in Charleston, Sussex and died on May 4th, 2012 in Aix-en-Provence. |
Female | Artist, Book Illustrator, Writer | 1918 Dec 25th | 2012 May 4th |
| View Record |
Margaret |
Miller |
Margaret Stevenson Miller was born in 1896 and was not only a scholar, but also one of the pioneers for the fight against legislation preventing married women from retaining their jobs. Miller attended Edinburgh University, where she received her Masters degree and Bachelor’s of commerce. |
Female | Academic, Activist, Writer | 1896 | 1978 Mar 4th |
| View Record |
Libby |
Benedict |
Libby Benedict (17 June 1903-15 January 1990) was a Jewish-American writer active during the pre- and post-World War II period. Dates of her birth and death seem to be accepted, but there are other confusions about parentage and name. |
Female | Journalist, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Translator | 1903 Jun 17th | 1990 Jan 15th |
| View Record |
Anna |
D. Whyte |
Little is known about the personal life of the enigmatic author Anna D. Whyte. Believed to be born in 1909 in New Zealand, many of her early and later years remain a mystery. |
Female | Novelist | 1909 | |
| View Record |
Frank |
Prewett |
Canadian war poet Frank James Prewett (nicknamed “Toronto”) was born August 24, 1893 near Mt. Forest, Ontario on his maternal grandfather’s farm. This son of Arthur H. |
Writer | 1893 Feb 24th | 1962 Feb 16th | |
| View Record |
Franz |
von Ullman |
Hungarian literary agent or publisher |
||||
| View Record |
Jane |
Gregory |
Worked in the Foreign Rights Department at The Hogarth Press. |
Pages
