Aminatta Forna
Aminatta Forna is the author of the novels “Ancestor Stones,” “The Memory of Love” and “The Hired Man,” as well as the memoir “The Devil That Danced on the Water.” Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages.
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Eileen Mary Challans
Mary Renault (pseudonym of Eileen Mary Challans) was a British lesbian writer best known for her widely read historical-fiction novels set in ancient Greece that gained her a large following among straight and gay readers alike.
Ada Iddings Gale
American author and educator
Emma Orczy
Novelist and playwright best known for The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
Anne Crone
Irish novelist and teacher
Alaya Dawn Johnson
Alaya Dawn Johnson is an award-winning author of speculative fiction for young adults and adults.
Anne Margaret Rowan
1800s Irish novelist, historian, and political activist
Bríd Mahon
Irish folklorist
Winifred Letts
Irish novelist and playwright
Christine de Pizan
1300s and 1400s Italian-born French writer, philosopher, composer and feminist