Writers with Entries: July 2009 update

New Author Entries Elizabeth Walker, 1623-90. Miscellaneous religious writer and memoirist. Elizabeth Burnet, 1661-1709. Diarist, letter-writer, Latitudinarian devotional writer and political lobbyist. Sarah, Lady Piers, 1667 or after – 1719. Poet writing on theatrical and political topics. Elisabeth Wast, before 1670 – before 1724. Scottish religious autobiographer. Standard reference sources give her name as “West” … Read more

Writers with Entries: January 2009 update

Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is an on-line cultural history generated from the lives and works of women writers. The materials listed below were added to Orlando in January 2009.  For more information on Orlando visit http://www.cambridge.org/online/orlandoonline New Author Entries Elizabeth Melvill (perhaps 1575 to 1640), Scottish … Read more

Writers with entries: July 2008 update

Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is an on-line cultural history generated from the lives and works of women writers. The materials listed below were added to Orlando in July 2008.  For more information on Orlando visit http://www.cambridge.org/online/orlandoonline New Author Entries Mary Oxlie, fl. 1616. Either English or … Read more

Writers with Entries: January 2008 update

Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is an on-line cultural history generated from the lives and works of women writers. The materials listed below were added to Orlando in January 2008.  For more information on Orlando visit http://www.cambridge.org/online/orlandoonline New Author Entries Margaret Roper, 1505-44, Renaissance letter-writer and translator … Read more

Writers with Entries: July 2007 update

Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is an on-line cultural history generated from the lives and works of women writers. The materials listed below were added to Orlando in July 2007. For more information on Orlando visit http://www.cambridge.org/online/orlandoonline New Author Entries Elizabeth Shirley, 1566 – 1641, author of … Read more

Writers with Entries: January 2007 update

Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is an on-line cultural history generated from the lives and works of women writers. The materials listed below were added to Orlando in January 2007.  For more information on Orlando visit http://www.cambridge.org/online/orlandoonline New Author Entries Anne Locke, c. 1533 – maybe c. … Read more

2006 Initial Release

Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is an on-line cultural history generated from the lives and works of women writers. The writers listed below – as British women, men, and other women – had their own entries in the initial release of Orlando in June 2006. More entries … Read more