Paediatrician and the first woman to be appointed to the honorary staff of Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children; the Medical Officer of the first baby clinic established in New South Wales (1914); the first Director of the Mothercraft Homes and Nurses’ Training Schools; the first person to differentiate between coeliac disease and cystic fibrosis.
Irish journalist, equestrian and writer
Edith Coleman was a naturalist who wrote prolifically on a wide range of animals and published in both scientific journals and the popular press.
Hannah Davis Richards, born in 1804, taught at the Baker Street School, the first schoolhouse in West Roxbury, Boston. Hannah’s diary provides valuable insights into life in early 19th-century West Roxbury and is an important historical source.
Ann Cotton wrote one of the earliest personal accounts of Bacon’s Rebellion (1676–1677).
Annie Henry Christian was the sister of Patrick Henry and an early settler of the Virginia backcountry, and eventually Kentucky, who wrote the best first-person account of that era of westward migration that survives from any woman.
From January 1883, Barnett kept a detailed diary that recorded descriptions of her Australian tip trip including topography, vegetation, observations of frontier life, and commentary on white and Aboriginal relations.
Though Sandra Gail Lambert didn’t start writing seriously until her late 30s—publishing her first novel at 62—there are advantages to being a “late bloomer.”
Irish novelist
Grace Nies Fletcher was an author of poetry, stories, articles, biographies and novels.