Crossword clues for authoress
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Authoress \Au"thor*ess\, n.
A female author.
--Glover.
Note: The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male.
Wiktionary
n. (context dated derogatory English) A female author.
WordNet
n. a woman author
Usage examples of "authoress".
You remember my speaking of a Miss Kavanagh, a young authoress, who supported her mother by her writings.
Robertson, though the authoress has evidently got her idea of his character through an unfavourable medium, and does not understand the full value of one of the most admirable characters I ever knew or expect to know.
She said nothing to Sally about her secret identity as an authoress, however.
A few months ago I had set out to discover the true identity of the authoress who had inspired me with a passion to write.
A situation that could have compromised her and ruined her career as the authoress Mrs.
The villain probably intended that her identity as the famous authoress would be revealed when the two of you were discovered in the morning.
Not the Rings, not your career as an authoress, and, most assuredly, not the Mad Monk.
Cash, a younger friend of George Eliot, and took tea with two most interesting, old ladies--one 82, and the other 80--who had befriended the famous authoress when she was poor and stood almost alone.
The general pathos of the idea disabled the criticism of the audience, composed of the authoress and the reader, blinding perhaps both to not a little that was neither brilliant nor poetic.
I was much taken, in London, with a young authoress, Geraldine Jewsbury.
The name of the authoress of Corinne, naturally calls to mind that of the friend who was most faithful to her in misfortune, and who was not herself screened from the severity of Napoleon by the just and universal admiration of which she was the object.
I shall probably never have need, for I shall never become a great authoress, help me to serve the tea, will you?
Griffen, the eminent industrialist, and niece of noted authoress Laura Chase, was found dead in her Church St.
Named in honour of famed local authoress Laura Chase, the first Prize will be presented at Graduation in June.
Yet Number Five has more esprit, more sparkle, more sense in her talk, than many a famous authoress from whom we should expect brilliant conversation.