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Alice Annie Kenny

One of New Zealand’s most assiduous but least-remembered writers

Proficient in modern Greek, Arabic, and Syriac, she wrote a number of novels and accounts of travel. In 1892, with her twin sister, Mrs. Margaret Dunlop Gibson, she discovered in the library of the convent of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai, the palimpsest containing the Four Gospels in Syriac, representing the oldest text known of any part of the new Testament.

Anna Fellowes Vroland

Passionate about women’s rights and the cause of peace, Vroland was also a humanitarian with strong views on the treatment of Australia’s Aboriginal population; she became one of Victoria’s leading campaigners for Aboriginal rights.

Genni Batterham

Australian artist, author, disability rights activist and filmmaker

Fanny Crosby

Blind song writer who wrote more than 2500 hymns besides many secular songs, cantatas, and lyrical productions of various kinds.

Frances Milton Trollope

English critic of American domestic life

Anna Swanwick

English writer, translator, and philanthropist.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

English author and prolific writer of the Victorian era who produced about 120 volumes, including novels, tales, school manuals, histories and biographies.