Kathlyn Williams
Silent film actress, director and writer
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Lillian Gish
In 1920, Lillian Gish both delivered a landmark performance in D.W. Griffith’s Way Down East and directed her sister Dorothy in Remodelling Her Husband. This was her sole director credit in a career as a screen actor that began with An Unseen Enemy in 1912 and ended with The Whales of August in 1987.
Ruth Baldwin
Early film director, editor and writer
Josefa Acevedo Sánchez
Colombian writer
Candelaria Figueredo
Cuban revolutionary
Leona Vicario
Heroine of Mexican Independence
Marija Pēkšēna
The first Latvian woman playwright.
Mary Pearse
Co-founded the Leinster Stage Society, for which she wrote some original pieces and adapted some Dickens for the stage. They had moderate success until a calamitous run at the Cork opera house in 1912.
Dorothy Levitt
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.
Rebecca Hardin Davis
American novelist and miscellaneous writer