victorian women writers

Beatrix Potter

English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist; she was best known for her children’s books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit

George Eliot

English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era

Charlotte Bronte

English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bront sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature

Emily Bronte

English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature