Dorothea Herbert
1700s and 1800s Irish author
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Melesina Trench
1700s and 1800s Irish writer
Phyllis Naidoo
South African lawyer, writer and anti-apartheid activist
Elizabeth Burchill
Elizabeth Burchill worked as a nurse in many diverse locations, including England, Canada, the USA, New Guinea and Thursday Island. She has written several books about her nursing experience, including Thursday Island Nurse and The Paths I’ve Trod.
Jean Carman
Jean Carman experimented with dyemaking from eucalypts and published Dyemaking with Eucalypts in 1978. She tested 240 species from all over Australia, documenting the colours produced in wool with different treatments.
Nesca Robb
20th century Irish author
Bridget Hedderman
Irish district nurse
Ethel Mayne
Irish novelist, short story writer, biographer and translator
Rosalynn Carter
Rosalynn Carter, wife of the thirty-ninth U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, forged a career in public service as one of the nation’s foremost advocates for mental health.
Melissa Fay Greene
Melissa Fay Greene’s award-winning books Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing chronicle dramatic episodes in the civil rights movement in Georgia (U.S.).