Dubbed ‘the Fastest Girl on Earth’, Dorothy Levitt was an early motorist who competed in speed trials and long distance races, setting the Ladies World Speed record in the Brighton Speed Trials of 1905, by driving her Napier racing car at 79.75 mph.
American novelist and miscellaneous writer
Egyptian writer and women’s rights activist
American story-writer
American novelist, known under the pen name of Elizabeth Wetherell. She wrote a number of stories, usually with moral teachings, and collaborated with her sister Anna, but she is chiefly remembered for her very successful novel, The Wide, Wide World, published in 1851.
English writer
English novelist and biographer
Biruta Skujeniece often appeared on the stage of the Latvian theatre, but she made a name for herself chiefly as an elocutionist.
Irish-American theatre actress
English author.