Madge Saunders
Jamaican Christian minister and community worker
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Margery Kempe
English Christian mystic, known for The Book of Margery Kempe, possibly the first autobiography in the English language.
Marguerite Porete
French-speaking mystic and author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of Christian mysticism on the workings of agape (divine love)
Martha Gruening
Jewish activist and journalist
Elizabeth Anne Gard’ner
New Zealand home science teacher and administrator and writer
Dolce Ann Cabot
New Zeleand teacher, journalist, feminist
Marjorie Fleming
One of the most famous child diarists, Kirkcaldy-born Marjorie Fleming (1803-1811), tested the use of language as well as acceptable topics of conversation through her writing.
Emily Pepys
10 year-old English diarist Emily Pepys (1833-1877) documented her quest for the kind of knowledge which was off-limits.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Though far more famous and wealthy than the average flapper, Sayre-Fitzgerald’s life as both a flapper and the wife of America’s most famous author of the decade – who plaigerized her work – represented the inner-conflict American flappers felt at home and in society.
Berta Burns
One of the first women to achieve high office in the New Zealand National Party