actresses

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"To differing degrees the social services and police's responses to the situation that they found themselves in was that they were the authoresses of their own misfortunes," he said.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025

This generation has had its fair share of authoresses who were first-class writers: the late Elinor Wylie and Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Willa Gather, Colette, Virginia Woolf.

From Time Magazine Archive

Forty ladies known as authoresses or painters came next on the list; among these were Mrs. Allingham, Mrs. Cowden Clarke, Mrs. Eiloart, Mary Howitt, Emily Pfeiffer, Augusta Webster.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Of course great authoresses shake themselves free from it.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

"She gave wholesale enjoyment to countless thousands, while she was also one of the comparatively few popular authoresses who are in themselves as good as the very best of their books."

From Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)