Women writers

Mary Frances Harriet Dowdall (née Borthwick)

1876-1939
Author; wife of H.C. Dowdall; daughter of 19th Baron Borthwick
Sitter in 2 portraits

Dame Margaret Drabble

1939-
Novelist and critic
Sitter in 9 portraits

Daphne Du Maurier

1907-1989
Writer
Sitter in 24 portraits

Maria Edgeworth

1768-1849
Novelist; daughter of Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Sitter associated with 9 portraits

George Eliot

1819-1880
Novelist
Sitter associated with 12 portraits

Jenny Fabian

circa 1950-
Writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Margaret Cameron Flower (née Coss)

1907-1998
Author; wife of Desmond John Newman Flower
Sitter in 1 portrait

Pamela Frankau

1908-1967
Novelist, journalist and short story writer
Sitter in 28 portraits

Lady Antonia Fraser

1932-
Writer
Sitter in 18 portraits

Madge Garland

1898-1990
Fashion journalist, writer and teacher
Sitter in 2 portraits

Elizabeth Gaskell

1810-1865
Novelist, short-story writer and biographer of Charlotte Brontë
Sitter in 4 portraits

Jamila Gavin

1941-
Children's writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Cynthia Jebb (née Noble), Lady Gladwyn

1898-1990
Political hostess and diarist; wife of 1st Baron Gladwyn
Sitter in 2 portraits

Elinor Glyn

1864-1943
Novelist
Sitter in 8 portraits

Rumer Godden

1907-1998
Novelist, autobiographer and children's writer
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sarah Grand (Frances Elizabeth Bellenden McFall, née Clarke)

1854-1943
Novelist and women's rights campaigner
Sitter in 3 portraits

Germaine Greer

1939-
Writer and broadcaster; Professor of English and Comparative Studies
Sitter in 10 portraits

Helena Clapshaw Grose (Helena Morrell)

1904-1986
Novelist; wife of James William Morrell
Sitter in 1 portrait

Dorothy Maud (née Vivian), Countess Haig

1879-1939
Writer; wife of 1st Earl Haig; daughter of 3rd Lord Vivian
Sitter in 14 portraits

Radclyffe Hall

1880-1943
Novelist
Sitter in 9 portraits