Dora Mayer
Self-taught researcher, writer, sociologist, journalist, social activist.
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Dorothy Livesay
Canadian poet, memoirist and literary critic
Isabelle de Charrière
Swiss-Dutch writer and composer
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
Croatian children’s writer Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times between 1931 and 1938.
Beryl Markham
British-Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author Beryl Markham was the first person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic from Britain to North America.
Norma Borthwick
Irish artist, writer and Irish-language activist
Radclyffe Hall
Distinguished English poet and author renowned for her pioneering novel, “The Well of Loneliness,” a groundbreaking position in lesbian literature.
Ann Petry
Writer best known for her 1946 novel “The Street,” which became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies.
Dr Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.
Annik Honoré
Belgian journalist and music promoter