Marițica Bibescu
Prominent figure in Romanian history, married to Gheorghe Bibescu, who became Prince of Wallachia in 1842.
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Gloria Naylor
American novelist best known for her debut work, “The Women of Brewster Place” (1982), which won the National Book Award for First Novel in 1983.
Radclyffe Hall
Distinguished English poet and author renowned for her pioneering novel, “The Well of Loneliness,” a groundbreaking position in lesbian literature.
Ann Petry
Writer best known for her 1946 novel “The Street,” which became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies.
Mary Sidney
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, was a distinguished Englishwoman known for her poetry and literary support.
Moa Martinson
Prominent figure in Sweden’s proletarian literature
Katharine Glasier
English socialist politician, journalist, and novelist, best known for her pivotal role as a founding member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1893.
Ida Tarbell
American journalist, known as one of the leading muckrakers of the progressive era.
Marya Chéliga-Loevy
Polish-French writer, playwright, feminist and pacifist.
Dr Barbara Mertz
American author and Egyptologist who wrote under her name and pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. She earned a Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago in 1952 and was celebrated for her mystery novels, including the Amelia Peabody series.