First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Katharina M. Wilson, Paul Schlueter, June Schlueter

A sampling of the coverage: Anna Akhmatova * Sister Bertken * Charlotte Bront' * Jane Welsh Carlyle * Barbara Cartland * Concha Espina * Margaret Drabble * Oriana Fallaci * Kate Greenaway * Ruth Prawer Jhabvala * Fanny Kemble * Doris Lessing * Rosa Luxemburg * Nadezhda Mandelshtam * Nancy Mitford * Iris Murdoch * Edna O'Brien * Heidi Pataki * Beatrix Potter * Barbara Pym * Mary Renault * Jean Rhys * Dorothy Sayers * Sappho * Edith * Sitwell * Mary Stuart * Fay Weldon * Elizabeth of York * Virginia Woolf * Marguerite Yourcenar