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Dr Jill Ker Conway

Australian-American scholar and author and the first woman to chair a listed public company in Australia.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (b.1938) is an award-winning author

Laura Redden Searing

Deaf American suffragist

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