Wendy Lowenstein
Wendy Lowenstein was a pioneer of oral history, giving a voice to the ordinary people who lived history. Lowenstein was also an activist who engaged in a life-long fight for social justice.
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Elizabeth Messenger
Elizabeth Messenger’s novels, once popular enough to be serialised and translated into other languages, are now difficult to obtain. Her recipe books appear to have been more durable.
Rihi Puhiwahine Te Rangi-hirawea
The most famous of the women of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Maniapoto in the nineteenth century was undoubtedly Rihi Puhiwahine Te Rangi-hirawea.
Dr Betty Shabazz
Educator and civil rights activist Dr Betty Shabazz was the wife, and later widow, of Malcolm X.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
In 1773 she published a volume of her poems, which the same year ran through four editions. During her long life she wrote the life of Richardson, the novelist, and edited Akenside’s Pleasures of the Imagination and Collins’s Odes and a collection of the British Novelists, with memoirs and criticisms.
Caroline Frances Cornwallis
English author. She acquired a thorough knowledge of Latin and Greek, and making herself conversant with nearly every study which occupies thoughtful men, from an early age she carried on a correspondence with many eminent persons.
Caroline Elizabeth Norton
English poet and novelist
Christina Rossetti
Poetess of the Spiritual Life
Adah Isaacs Menken
Actress Adah Isaacs Menken was noted as a woman of extraordinary beauty, culture, and brilliancy. She was famous for her marriages and divorces, and a volume of poetry by her was published as Infelicia (1868).
Zelda D’Aprano
Australian labour activist Zelda D’Aprano’s leadership was exercised by ‘fighting inequality and injustice through confronting employers, fellow male unionists and CPA office holders by speaking out, naming problems and working hard’.