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English novelist and animal rights advocate
English novelist and animal rights advocate
Italian Singer, Poet, Conductor, Composer and Scholar
New Zealand’s pioneer suffragist
English author
Thuringian princess and Frankish queen, founder of a scholarly abbey
Advocate for the education of women and the abandonment of the custom of child marriages
No authoress ever enjoyed a larger share than Joanna Baillie of the esteem and affection of her literary contemporaries.
Swedish novelist whose books were translated into several languages and sold around the world.
Immortalised by Rouseau and made famous by her unfortunate love for Abelard.
She became one of the popular American poets in the period following the Civil War, and her poems “Elizabeth Aged Nine,” and “Are the Children at Home?” were known the country over.