Dell Strahorn
One of the first white woman to make a complete tour of Yellowstone Park. In 1911, she published Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, a memoir of her travels.
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Emma Sarepta Yule
Emma Yule, the first teacher and first school principal in the emerging city of Everett, Washington, pursued a long career in which she held leadership positions often reserved for men, influenced and mentored many children and young adults, and traveled solo around the world. Yule was the author of numerous books and articles, and she wrote about the conditions of women she encountered on her travels.
Christabel Bielenberg
British expat who wrote about her experience of the rise of Hitler in Germany
Julia Flisch
Julia Flisch was an advocate for young women’s rights, education, and independence. She strove to advance the cause of women’s higher education in Georgia (US state) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Janisse Ray
Janisse Ray, an environmental activist and poet, is the award-winning author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, a highly praised book that combines elements of ecology and autobiography into a multifaceted work.
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda is an award-winning actor, a political activist, and a former fitness guru.
Eliza Frances Andrews
Eliza Frances Andrews was an American writer, newspaper reporter, editor, columnist, social critic, scientist, and educator.
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
Sociologist, activist, teacher, and writer, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin spent a lifetime studying and combating economic and racial oppression. She is best known for her autobiography, The Making of a Southerner (1947).
Dorothy Fuldheim
Dorothy Fuldheim entered the field of television at an age when most people begin to plan their retirement and lasted there long enough to become a living legend.
Ella Grant Wilson
Cleveland florist and author who wrote about Euclid Ave.’s “Millionaires’ Row”