Alice Childress
American playwright, actress, and author
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Alice Walker
American author, poet, and activist whose most famous work, “The Color Purple,” published in 1982, is a seminal novel in American literature, known for its powerful portrayal of African American women’s lives in the early 20th century South.
Margaretha van Godewijk
Prominent Dutch Golden Age poet and a painter.
Marie Wilcox
The last native speaker of Wukchumni, a dialect of Tule-Kaweah, an indigenous language spoken by the Tule-Kaweah Yokuts of California. Her life’s work focused on preserving this endangered language.
Cornelia Sorabji
Prominent Indian lawyer, social reformer, and writer.
Ella M S Marble
American physician who had a diverse career as a journalist, educator, and activist. Marble actively supported women’s interests and participated in various movements from an early age.
Emilia Dilke
British author, art historian, feminist, and trade unionist.
Dr Alice Bunker Stockham
Obstetrician and gynecologist from Chicago and the fifth woman to become a doctor in the United States.
Anne Lister
English diarist known for being recognized as “the first modern lesbian.”
Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen
Renowned author known for her tales of affluent African-American families in the South.