Anne Elwood (née Curteis, 1796 – 24 February 1873) was a British traveller, writer, and biographer.

The book describes her journey to India via Egypt and it is illustrated by Elwood and her husband.

[3] In addition to descriptions of her time in India while her husband was leading a regiment, Elwood's book also includes material on the couple's return to England in 1828 by sea.

Elwood claims in the preface that she could not find a book about women writers and so she decided to write one.

Memoirs of the literary ladies of England from the commencement of the last century, published in 1841, describes the lives of 29 leading women writers.