Women writers

Barbara Hedworth

Writer
Sitter in 4 portraits

Leslie Ruth Howard

1924-2013
Writer; daughter of Leslie Howard
Sitter in 1 portrait

Naomi Jacob

1884-1964
Writer and actress
Sitter in 5 portraits

P.D. James

1920-2014
Writer and public servant
Sitter in 9 portraits

Margaret Elizabeth Child-Villiers (née Leigh), Countess of Jersey

1849-1945
Political hostess, philanthropist and children's writer; wife of 7th Earl of Jersey; daughter of 2nd Baron Leigh
Sitter in 8 portraits

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1927-2013
Writer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye

1908-2004
Novelist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sheila Kaye-Smith

1887-1956
Writer
Sitter in 12 portraits

Alison Louise ('A.L.') Kennedy

1965-
Writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Margaret Moore Kennedy

1896-1967
Writer
Sitter associated with 12 portraits

Lady Caroline Lamb

1785-1828
Novelist; Wife of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Sitter in 2 portraits

Lucinda Lambton

1943-
Writer, photographer and television broadcaster; daughter of Viscount Lambton
Sitter in 3 portraits

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Mrs Maclean)

1802-1838
Poet and novelist
Sitter associated with 4 portraits

Marghanita Laski

1915-1988
Novelist, critic and journalist
Sitter in 5 portraits

Rosamond Nina Lehmann

1901-1990
Novelist
Sitter in 24 portraits

Charlotte Lennox (née Ramsay)

1720-1804
Writer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Doris Lessing

1919-2013
Writer; Nobel Prize winner
Sitter in 17 portraits

Kathy Lette

1958-
Writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Maud Sophia Levett

1866-1947
Writer; wife of William Swinnerton Byrd Levett
Sitter in 3 portraits

Lady (Maria) Theresa Lewis (née Villiers)

1803-1865
Writer
Sitter in 4 portraits