The biographies of women writers provide insight into their lives and works. They also look at the reception of their work by their contemporary audience and since.
This resource is still continuing to grow as new biographies are added: a growing resource for biographies of European Women Writers prior to 1900. Chawton House is very grateful to all the contributors, who have generously given their time and expertise.
- Penelope Aubin (1679?-1738), by Debbie Welham
- Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) by Daniel R. Mangiavellano
- Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont ( 1711-1780 ), by Peggy Schaller
- Aphra Behn (1640-1689), by Janet Todd
- Susanna Blamire ( 1747-1794 ), by Christopher Maycock
- Frances Brooke (1724-1789), by Rebecca Garwood
- Mary Brunton (1778-1818), by Ruth Facer
- Sophia Burrell (1753-1802), by Georgiana Green
- Frances Burney (1752-1840), by Valerie Patten
- Sarah Harriet Burney (1772-1844), by Lorna J. Clark
- Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), by Susan Manly
- Sarah Fielding (1710-1768), by Rebecca Garwood
- Mary Hays (1760-1824), by Elma Scott
- Eliza Haywood (c. 1693-1756), by Ruth Facer
- Felicia Hemans (1793 -1835), by Sheryl Craig
- Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), by Elma Scott
- Sophia Lee (1750-1824) and Harriet Lee (1757-1851), by Rebecca Garwood
- Charlotte Lennox (c.1729-1804), by Ruth Facer
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762),by Isobel Grundy
- Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724), by Ros Ballaster
- Sydney Owenson (c.1783-1859), by Julie Donovan
- Laetitia Pilkington (c.1709-1750), by Norma Clarke
- Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), by Ruth Facer
- Mary Darby Robinson (1757-1800), by Katherine Binhammer
- Maria Regina Roche (c. 1764 – 1845), by Ruth Facer
- Anna Seward (1742-1809), by Marion Roberts
- Mary Shelley (1797-1851), by Helen Doyle
- Charlotte Smith (1749-1806), by Ruth Facer
- Melesina Chenevix St. George Trench (1768-1827), by Katharine Kittredge
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), by Valerie Patten