Buchi Emecheta
Nigerian writer of novels, plays, autobiographies and children’s books
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Constance Malleson
Irish actress and writer
Caesarina Kona Makhoere
South African anti-apartheid activist and prison writer, known for her work No Child’s Play: In Prison Under Apartheid (1988).
Antjie Krog
South African writer and sociologist, best known for her Afrikaans poetry, her reporting on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and her 1998 book Country of My Skull.
Zubeida Jaffer
Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements.
Elissa Washuta
Aauthor of two books, Starvation Mode and My Body Is a Book of Rules, named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award.
Dell Strahorn
One of the first white woman to make a complete tour of Yellowstone Park. In 1911, she published Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, a memoir of her travels.
Emma Sarepta Yule
Emma Yule, the first teacher and first school principal in the emerging city of Everett, Washington, pursued a long career in which she held leadership positions often reserved for men, influenced and mentored many children and young adults, and traveled solo around the world. Yule was the author of numerous books and articles, and she wrote about the conditions of women she encountered on her travels.
Christabel Bielenberg
British expat who wrote about her experience of the rise of Hitler in Germany
Julia Flisch
Julia Flisch was an advocate for young women’s rights, education, and independence. She strove to advance the cause of women’s higher education in Georgia (US state) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.