Lucy Aikin
English writer; her most important works are her memoirs of the courts of Elizabeth (1818) James I (1822), and Charles I (1833), and her Memoirs of Addison (1843).
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Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy
American author
Claire de Rémusat
A noted beauty of the court of Napoleon I, and an intimate friend of Josephine, she wrote an essay on the Education of Women, which was honored by the Academy, but her important work was her Mémoirs, published in 1879, and particularly valuable for the light they throw on the court of the First Empire.
Clara Morris
American theatre actor and writer
Gertrude Campbell
Irish writer, journalist, and critic
Grace Winifred Green
Green chalked up many firsts as a woman radio announcer in New Zealand and was always popular with listeners.
Helen Blackburn
Irish suffragist and writer
Alice Morse Earle
American writer on colonial history.
Frances Burney
English novelist and social leader
Lydia Maria Child
American writer whose 1825 novel, “The Rebels, a Tale of the Revolution,” was very popular.