Anna Dostoevskaya

Anna Dostoevskaya saved her writer husband, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from ruin. She was also the one to establish their own publishing company so that the family would receive far more profits from her husband’s writing.

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Miriam Tlali

The first Black woman in South Africa to publish an English-language novel in 1975, most of her writing was banned by the South African apartheid regime.

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