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Joan Lindsay

Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and visual artist best known for her book Picnic at Hanging Rock

Tan Yunxian

One of China’s most famous women doctors, active in the 1400s and 1500s

Sophia Tolstaya

War and Peace is known for its length, at 587,287 words. Sophia Tolstaya copied and edited it seven times by hand.

1940s film writer Catherine Turney was known for writing great women characters—strong, independent, and funny. Her films included The Man I Love (1947), A Stolen Life (1946), My Reputation (1946) and Mildred Pierce (1945).

Helen Kirkpatrick

Journalist and war correspondent

Dickey Chapelle

Photojournalist and war correspondent

Shahrnush Parsipur

Considered one of Iran’s bravest and boldest literary voices

Kylie Tennant

One of Australia’s most prominent writers in the mid-20th century, known especially for her socialist realist portrayals of the hardships of the working class and unemployed

Beulah Bewley

Irish epidemiologist

Emma Hannigan

Irish author and cancer awareness advocate