The EssayWomen Writers to Put Back on the BookshelfEpisodes Episode guide

Back up to: The Essay

1. Yolande Mukagasana

   5/5Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of a Rwandan survivor.
2. Storm Jameson

   4/5A Yorkshire-born writer with a European outlook who campaigned for World War II refugees.
3. Margaret Oliphant

   3/5The Scottish writer whose comic heroine Miss Marjoribanks bucks 19th-century conventions.
4. Lady Mary Wroth

   2/5The English Renaissance poet whose reputation at court was ruined by her writing.
5. Charlotte Turner Smith

   1/5The Romantic poet who inspired Wordsworth is profiled by Sophie Coulombeau.