Sylvia Neame
South African anti-apartheid and political activist and writer
Category Archives: Writer > Nonfiction
Continue reading
Sara Varley McCarthy
Ohio reporter and social welfare volunteer who helped organize the Cleveland Diocesan Council of the National Councl of Catholic Women in 1923, received a papal medal for distinguished service by a layperson to the Catholic Church in 1936.
Peggy Leeson
1700s Irish sex worker, brothel-keeper, and memoirist
Patricia Boylan
Irish actor and journalist
Constantia Maxwell
Irish historian
Thelma Gutsche
South African filmmaker and film scholar
Margaret Ballinger
Scottish-South African activist, educator and writer
Charlene Smith
South African journalist and activist
Buchi Emecheta
Nigerian writer of novels, plays, autobiographies and children’s books
Constance Malleson
Irish actress and writer