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> Catherine Ann Crowe, née Stevens was an English novelist, a writer of social and supernatural stories, and a playwright. She also wrote for children.

Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived to adulthood. Born in Thornton, Yorkshire, and raised in Haworth, where her father was the parish curate, she published under the pseudonym Currer Bell. Her best-known novel, Jane Eyre (1847), was an immediate success; she followed it with Shirley (1849) and Villette (1853). The Professor, her first written novel, appeared posthumously in 1857. Her sisters Emily...

Dinah Maria Mulock enjoyed a highly successful and diverse writing career and is perhaps best known today for her novel John Halifax, Gentleman (1857). A prolific author of fiction, essays and poetry, Mulock contributed many items, including supernatural material, to the popular magazines of the mid-Victorian period. Her short stories were subsequently collected in a variety of works. Following her marriage in 1864, her work was attributed to 'Mrs Craik'. -- from *Shadows in the Attic: A G...

A British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. ([Source][1]) [1]: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Elizabeth_Gaskell

A prolific English writer of the Victorian era, she led a very complex life (Wikipedia).