Sisters of Fortune

It's the turn of the twentieth century in California, and Frances Marion has decided on a career in the film industry. This is the story of how she became Hollywood's most highly paid screenwriter, and what happened next.

Mary Prince was more into enslavement in Bermuda, and in an effort to secure her own freedom wrote a book that changed the world.

Mary Shelley is remembered now for her scandalous love affair with Percy Shelley, and writing Frankenstein, but that only covers the first 20 years of her life. This is the story of what happened next.

Jane Austen is maybe one of the most famous female novellists of her time, but her determined journey to publication, and the relief that some financial independence brought her is not so well known. This is the story of Jane Austen's twenty year challenge to get her name into print.

This is the story of Charlotte Hayes, a woman who had only a tenuous link to writing but lived a life that could easily have been turned into a novel.

This is the story of Aphra Behn, first woman to make her living from writing in England, spy and maybe the inventor of the novel.

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