Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
One of the most gifted and original of German women poets.
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Lina Morgenstern
German social reformer. At eighteen she had organized a league to aid poor school children, and after her marriage to Dr. Morgenstern she founded the Berlin Kindergarten Association, of which she was president from 1860 – 1866.
Selma Lagerlöf
Eminent Swedish novelist and leader of the modern romantic reaction in Sweden.
Louise A Bertin
French poet and composer
Olive Schreiner
English-South African writer
Marie Corelli
Popular English novelist
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
American philanthropist and author known for her temperance reform, and in behalf of the advancement of women.
Anne Killigrew
English artist and poetess
Luise Mühlbach
German novelist who wrote more than fifty novels
Louise d’Épinay
French writer whose Memoirs and Correspondence give a true picture of the refined but corrupt manners which prevailed among the higher classes in France during the reign of Louis XV.