Queen Elizabeth I (people tend to forget the Virgin Queen was as good a poet as she was speech maker)
Jane Austen
Emily Dickinson
Henry James (furious controversy about this – but there is general belief that an unfortunate household accident to the crotch area early in life did for him in the sex department)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
EM Forster (no full sex experience until his late 30s, by which time all his major fiction was written)
George Bernard Shaw
WB Yeats (virtually celibate until his 30s)
Anne Widdicombe (the only self proclaimed virgin in the Lower House and the author of more novels than any other MP)
Oh, I almost forgot - Christina Rossetti, the poet muse of the PRB.
Gallery Carre
