Selina Bunbury
Irish novelist and short-story and travel writer
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Marianne Caroline Hamilton
1800s Irish artist and memoirist
Sarah Atkinson
1800s Irish philanthropist and author
Mary Houston
Irish craftswoman, teacher, and author
Dr Margaret Harper
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.
Nannie Power O’Donoghue
Irish journalist, equestrian and writer
Edith Coleman
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
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
Ann Cotton wrote one of the earliest personal accounts of Bacon’s Rebellion (1676–1677).
Annie Henry Christian
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.