Mary Spear Tiernan
Movelist, essayist, and occasional poet who wrote primarily about central Virginia before and during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
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Mary Virginia Terhune
Marion Harland was a writer of novels, short stories, biographies, travel narratives, cookbooks, and domestic manuals whose career stretched across seven decades of sectional conflict and great change in American life.
Sarah Ann Brock
Sarah Ann Brock, a writer who often published under the pseudonym Virginia Madison, published numerous editorials, historical articles, reviews, essays, letters, travel sketches, short stories, biographies, and translations in her career.
Rosemary Daniell
A writer and a teacher of writing, Rosemary Daniell is known for her provocative poems and memoirs.
Eleanor Ross Taylor
Eleanor Ross Taylor was a poet, short-fiction author, and literary critic.
Virginia Moore
Poet, biographer, and scholar, perhaps best known for her work Virginia Is a State of Mind (1942), which has been described as the “biography of a state.”
Flora Díaz Parrado
Cuban lawyer and women’s rights activist
Victoria Aveyard
Author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen series.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Judith Ortiz Cofer was one of a number of Latina writers who rose to prominence during the 1980s and 1990s.
Dr Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker’s novel Jubilee, published in 1966, is one of the first novels to present the nineteenth-century African American historical experience in the South from an African-American and female point of view.