Women authors, English -- Biography

One of the first Englishwomen to make a living through her writing, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, known as Mad Madge, was a dazzling figure - brave, eccentric, loving, clever and energetic. Her colourful story is told against the background of the Civil War and the Restoration.

Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and Sylvia Plath are three of our most famous authors - this book tells the story of the remarkable mothers, who shaped them. Julia Stephen, Clara Miller, and Aurelia Plath were fascinating women in their own rights, and their relationships with their daughters we...