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Thérèse de Dillmont

In 1884 needleworker Thérèse de Dillmont left the embroidery school that she had started with her sister Franziska and moved to France, where she wrote her Encyclopedia of Needlework (1886).

Teréz Karacs

Teréz Karacs was a Hungarian writer, educator, memoirist and women’s rights activist.

Kartini

Kartini was an Indonesian national hero, a pioneer in the area of education for girls and women’s rights for Indonesians.

Andrea Villarreal

Andrea Villarreal was a teacher, poet, feminist, labor organizer, and revolutionary.

Aparna Nancherla

Aparna Nancherla is an American comedian and actor.

Lillemor Rachlew

Lillemor Rachlew was one of four Norwegians who were the first women to set foot on the Antarctic mainland in 1937, for whom the Four Ladies Bank in Prydz Bay was named.

Mina Shum

Mina Shum is the writer and director of award-winning feature films and several short films. I

Julia Peterkin

Julia Peterkin was an American author who won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Literature for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary.

Katharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. Over her more than 50-year career, she published novels, volumes of poetry and short story collections.

Katherine Mansfield

Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a major modernist writer who wrote as Katherine Mansfield.