Ethna Carbery
Irish poet, writer, and journalist
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Nola Leigh Millar
First director of the New Zealand Drama School
Frances Browne
Browne wrote a great deal of poetry; three three-volume novels, My share of the world: an autobiography (1861), The Castleford case (1862), and The hidden sin (1866); and The Ericksons (1852) and Our uncle the traveller’s stories (1859) for children. She published much in magazines and newspapers, including ‘Legends of Ulster’, but is remembered today chiefly for Granny’s wonderful chair and its tales of fairy times (1857).
Frances Power Cobbe
Irish feminist, journalist, anti-vivisectionist, and philanthropist
Ellen Mary Clerke
Irish journalist and writer
Ettie Annie Rout
Ettie Rout gained a public profile as a cyclist, vegetarian, freethinker and physical culturist.
Edith M Thomas
American poet and essayist
Marie Bashkirtseff
Russian artist and writer
Luisa Tetrazzini
Italian prima donna
Susanna Wesley
“She was the mother of Methodism in a religious and moral sense; for, her courage, her submissiveness to authority, the high tone of her mind, its independence and self-control, the warmth of her devotional feelings, and the practical direction given to them, came up and were visibly repeated in the character and conduct of her son.”