Margaret Avis
Letter writer and source of local history information
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Georgette Heyer
Full of young women navigating high society, handsome men with more money than sense, duels, danger, and romance, Georgette Heyer’s novels paint a world that was far from the one lived in by the 1920s and ‘30s readers who were the first to eagerly flock to her work.
Paula Gaidule
Latvian educator
Emilia Pardo Bazán
Spanish writer and novelist
Ottilie Wildermuth
German children’s book writer
Dr Christiane Tonaillon
Austrian writer and educator
Růžena Svobodová
Czech writer
Rosario Orrego
Chilean poet
Rosalía de Castro
She enjoyed little fame during her lifetime, but criticism now proclaims her the greatest Spanish poet of her generation.
Rosa Duarte
Dominican writer and activist