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Sue Monk Kidd

Author best known for her 2002 novel The Secret Life of Bees, which has sold over 8 million copies and been translated into thirty-six languages.

Shirley Sargent

Prolific historian of Yosemite National Park

Sallie Clayton

Sarah “Sallie” Conley Clayton’s memoir, long held in the collection of the Virginia Historical Society, was published in 1999 under the title Requiem for a Lost City.

Agnes Deans Cameron

1800s Canadian educator, writer, lecturer, and adventurer

Harriet Brooks

Canadian nuclear physicist

Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon

English viceregal consort in Canada and Ireland, feminist, social reformer, and author

Edith Maude Eaton

English stenographer, journalist, and author known as Sui Sin Far

Emily Carr

Canadian painter, art teacher, and author

Evelyn Hanna

American novelist who used the Civil War (1861-65) as a backdrop for her romantic fiction.

Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes has achieved wide recognition for two best-selling books about her life in Italy: Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy and Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy.