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Helen Hunt Jackson

Writer, poet and advocate for native Americans

Tarquinia Molza

Italian Singer, Poet, Conductor, Composer and Scholar

Radegund of Poitiers

Thuringian princess and Frankish queen, founder of a scholarly abbey

Joanna Baillie

No authoress ever enjoyed a larger share than Joanna Baillie of the esteem and affection of her literary contemporaries.

Margaret Sangster

She became one of the popular American poets in the period following the Civil War, and her poems “Elizabeth Aged Nine,” and “Are the Children at Home?” were known the country over.

Mary Wortley Montagu

English author and letter-writer, who promoted the practice of inoculation against smallpox in Britain.

Mrs. Howitt alone wrote many poems, hymns, and ballads, some novels and books for the young. She also made translations from Frederika Bremer and Hans Anderson, and her independent publications number 110 distinct works.

Mary Russell Mitford

English novelist and dramatist, the author of Our Village, a series of sketches of village scenes and characters, which possess charm, grace, and humor akin to Jane Austin’s.

Janet Paterson Frame

For more than 20 years Frame had been annually nominated by PEN (the New Zealand Society of Authors) for the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was shortlisted twice, the second time in 2003, the year she was diagnosed with leukaemia. That year, along with Hone Tuwhare and her biographer Michael King, Frame was the recipient of an inaugural Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement.