This collection of remarkable quotations is a gem of discerning wisdom, lovely thoughts, and astute wit gleaned from the words of outstanding British Women Writers of the past: Margery Allingham, Jane Anger, Jane Austen, Margaret Fairless Barber, Barbara Cartland, Aphra Behn, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Vera Brittain, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Fanny Burney, Angela Carter, Susannah Centlivre, Agatha Christie, Eliza Cook, Lady Diana Cooper, George Eliot, Sarah Ellis, Lady Ann Fanshawe, Penelope Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gaskell, Pamela Glenconner, Clarissa Graves, Jane Harrison, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Caroline Lejeune, Rose Macaulay, Bathsua Makin, Katherine Mansfield, Harriet Martineau, Alice Meynell, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hannah More, Iris Murdoch, Dorothy Nevill, Florence Nightingale, Margaret Oliphant, Baroness Orczy, Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramee), Emmeline Pankhurst, Katherine Fowler Philips, Hester Piozzi, Jean Rhys, Dora Russell, Elizabeth Russell, Margaret Sackville, Vita Sackville-West, Dorothy L. Sayers, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Dame Edith Sitwell, Muriel Spark, Freya Stark, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Beatrice Potter Webb, Mary Webb, Rebecca West, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ellen Wood, and Virginia Woolf.<br>