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.
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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.
Emily Caroline Barnett
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.
Sandra Gail Lambert
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.”
Ella MacMahon
Irish novelist
Grace Nies Fletcher
Grace Nies Fletcher was an author of poetry, stories, articles, biographies and novels.
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer
Esther Wojcicki
Esther Wojcicki, known as “The Godmother of Silicon Valley,” is an internationally acclaimed journalist, award-winning educator and pioneer in the integration of technology into the classroom.