Alice Annie Kenny
One of New Zealand’s most assiduous but least-remembered writers
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Agnes Smith Lewis
Proficient in modern Greek, Arabic, and Syriac, she wrote a number of novels and accounts of travel. In 1892, with her twin sister, Mrs. Margaret Dunlop Gibson, she discovered in the library of the convent of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai, the palimpsest containing the Four Gospels in Syriac, representing the oldest text known of any part of the new Testament.
Charlotte Mary Yonge
English author and prolific writer of the Victorian era who produced about 120 volumes, including novels, tales, school manuals, histories and biographies.
Dinah Craik
Better known as Miss Mulock, an English novelist.
Eve Maria Langley
During the 1930s Eve Langley had begun writing poetry and short stories, and these were widely published in New Zealand periodicals.
Selma Lagerlöf
Eminent Swedish novelist and leader of the modern romantic reaction in Sweden.
Marie Corelli
Popular English novelist
Luise Mühlbach
German novelist who wrote more than fifty novels
Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler
Swedish realistic novelist and dramatist
Sydney Morgan
Irish novelist Lady Morgan wrote many other books and was one of the most vivid and hotly discussed literary figures of her generation.