Edith Searle Grossmann
New Zealand teacher, novelist, journalist, feminist
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Caroline Howard
Caroline Howard achieved national prominence in 1874 as one of those involved in a celebrated controversy about Irish women immigrants in New Zealand. She was also well known throughout Otago during the 1860s as a businesswoman and public figure.
Elizabeth Kelso
New Zealand journalist, editor, community leader
June Margaret Litman
New Zealand journalist
Elizabeth Bowen
Irish writer
Letitia Youmans
Canadian temperance campaigner
Madeleine Smith
Madeleine Smith’s trial for the murder of her lover, Emile L’Angelier, in 1857, combined those twin Victorian obsessions, sex and death, in a way that not only led to questions about womanhood in general, but about the whole fabric of society.
Madge Saunders
Jamaican Christian minister and community worker
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)