Clare Walker Gore looks at the life of Margaret Oliphant, the prolific Scottish author whose Miss Marjoribanks created a large comic heroine who bucked 19th-century conventions. Show more

What is a writer's duty? Katie Cooper considers Storm Jameson's campaigning for refugees, her 1940 appeal To the Conscience of the World, and why her fiction fell out of favour. Show more

Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of Rwandan nurse Yolande Mukagasana and her belief in reconciliation and rebuilding after genocide. Show more

Charlotte Turner Smith wrote ten novels, three poetry collections, four children's books and reshaped sonnet writing. By her death in 1803, she was in debt and out of favour. Show more

New Generation Thinker Nandini Das looks at the scandal caused by the 350,000-word prose poem The Countess of Montgomery's Urania and its depiction of women in love. Show more