Nancy Mitford
English novelist, biographer, and journalist
20th-century english women writers
Hilary Mantel
British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter
P. D. James
English novelist and life peer
Georgette Heyer
English novelist and short-story writer, in both the regency romance and detective fiction genres
Stella Gibbons
English author, journalist, and poet
Penelope Fitzgerald
Booker Prizewinning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England
Daphne du Maurier
English author and playwright
Agatha Christie
English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple
Frances Hodgson Burnett
British novelist and playwright