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Definition of Authoresses
1. authoress [n] - See also: authoress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Authoresses
Literary usage of Authoresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Women Writers: Their Works and Ways by Catherine Jane Hamilton (1892)
"Authoresses round a tea-table—Lady ... and in an amusing caricature in Frazer's
Magazine of the authoresses of that day, she is pre-eminent. ..."
2. "Their Majesties' Servants.": Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas by Doran (John), Richard Henry Stoddard (1890)
"THE DRAMATIC Authoresses. DURING this half century, there were seven ladies who
were more or less distinguished as writers for the stage. ..."
3. Detraction Displayed by Amelia Alderson Opie (1828)
"ON SOME OF THE MOST PROMINENT SUBJECTS OF DETRACTION, Authoresses, BLUE-STOCKINGS,
MEDICAL MEN, CONVERTS TO SERIOUS RELIGION. HAVING now described the ..."
4. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad: With Tales and Miscellanies Now by Jameson (Anna) (1834)
"Fanny Tarnow is one of the most remarkable and most fertile of all the modern
German authoresses. Her genius was developed by misfortune and suffering ..."
5. Nahida Remy's The Jewish Woman by Nahida Ruth Lazarus (1916)
"JEWISH Authoresses. IN the preceding chapter, " More Light," it has been seen
that from the start Jewish women took the deepest interest in the art of ..."
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