Hallie Quinn Brown
African American educator, writer, and women’s rights activist, renowned for her contributions to education and the fight for racial and gender equality.
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Dora Mayer
Self-taught researcher, writer, sociologist, journalist, social activist.
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.