Laura Redden Searing
Deaf American suffragist
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Annette Gordon-Reed
No historian has done more to recover the stories of enslaved African-Americans than Annette Gordon-Reed, whose 2008 book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as wide acclaim.
Caroline Blackwood
Irish writer
Anita Leslie
Irish biographer
Elizabeth Dillon
British diarist
Sarah Patton Boyle
Sarah-Patton Boyle was one of Virginia’s most prominent white civil rights activists during the 1950s and 1960s and author of the widely acclaimed autobiography The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition (1962).
Bethany Veney
Bethany Veney was an enslaved woman who, prior to the American Civil War (1861–1865), lived in the Shenandoah Valley and, in 1889, published The Narrative of Bethany Veney, a Slave Woman.
Madeleine Riffaud
Madeleine Riffaud was a French war correspondent and poet who worked with the French Resistance during WWII
Edith O’Shaughnessy
American journalist, biographer, screenwriter and political spouse
Célia Bertin
Célia Bertin was recruited to help Allied aviators hidden in Occupied Paris because of her ability to speak English. In 1993 she published a study of women during this period, Femmes sous l’Occupation.