Example sentences of "of [noun pl] writers " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is interesting to note that of the fourteen scripts Whitaker eventually commissioned for Doctor Who , no less than nine of them hailed from the pens of A.L.S. writers , with himself writing a further three . |
| 2 | This unusual composition has no striking literary merit , yet has real importance as an attempt to assert the value of women writers . |
| 3 | Ann Messenger describes the condition of women writers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in very different terms : |
| 4 | By the second quarter of the century there were more examples of women writers whose morality was unimpeachable , including Elizabeth Rowe and Elizabeth Carter . |
| 5 | Yet there were also instances of women writers falling into disgrace , most famously Laetitia Pilkington , a proteg — e of Jonathan Swift . |
| 6 | There had been earlier studies of women writers , notably Myra Reynolds 's The Learned Lady in England 1650–1760 ( 1920 ) , and occasional studies of individual writers , but only in the past twenty years have the conditions obtained for a comprehensive reexamination of these writers . |
| 7 | A study of women writers can easily lose sight of broader literary relations , and inadvertently consign its subjects to a ghetto . |
| 8 | Indeed , the appearance of Lonsdale 's book reveals and at once remedies a huge gap in the study of women writers . |
| 9 | The 1750s marked an important transition , as works by such men as Duncombe and Ballard celebrated the achievements of women writers , and Colman and Thornton published the first edition of Poems by Eminent Ladies . |
| 10 | Indeed , the influence of women writers at the time was rising in many areas , as Fanny Burney 's Evelina ( 1778 ) and Hannah Cowley 's dramatic works placed them in the forefront of contemporary literature . |
| 11 | Labouring poets carried a stigma comparable to that of women writers . |
| 12 | This is great news for the new generation of women writers , but for some it is already too late . |
| 13 | This begins with her Tasso and diverges into immense variety : from poems ( manuscript and printed , by herself and many others ) , mementoes , statistics , portraits ( many of women writers ) , and data on Hindu and Arabic languages , to diagrams of the hold of a slave ship . |