Katharine Lee Bates was a professor and writer best remembered as the author of the lyrics to the song “America the Beautiful.” She shared a home for almost three decades with her companion, fellow academic and social reformer Katharine Coman.
Tilly Aston, ‘Australia’s Own Helen Keller’ was a blind writer and teacher who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers and later went on to establish and become secretary of the Association for the Advancement of the Blind.
Harlem Renaissance poet, critic, journalist, and activist
Swedish poet
1600s playwright, poet and spy
New Zealand poet, novelist, short-story writer and editor
New Zealand poet, teacher and drama producer
Consort of the Emperor Theodosius II of Byzantium, poet, philanthropist.
German poet
One of the most prominent figures in Ukrainian literature, renowned for her poems and plays. In addition to her literary contributions, she actively participated in political, civil, and feminist movements.