Dr Louise Latsky
South African author and zoologist. She studied at the University of Stellenbosch, and was the first woman to be awarded a doctorate at this university. She later lectured at Potchefstroom University College and did research.
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Hilary Mutch
South African writer and anti-apartheid activist
Ingrid Jonker
South African poet
Hilda Bernstein
British-South African author, artist, and an activist against apartheid and for women’s rights
Dr Carolyn Rasmussen
Australian historian and biographer whose interests include the history of science and technology and the institutions associated with them.
Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith was a journalist and became the first woman news editor in Africa of the Sunday Times in Johannesburg in the ’60s .
Celestine Sibley
American author, journalist, and syndicated columnist who reported for the Atlanta Constitution from 1941 to 1999.
Chelsea Rathburn
American author of award-winning poetry collections, whose work is marked by quiet intensity and explores relationships between form and content, and between the self and the world.
María Cegarra Salcedo
The woman considered to be Spain’s first female to graduate in chemistry was María Cegarra Salcedo (1899-1993) but she is better known for her later career as a poet.
Hester Elizabeth Cornelius
South African labor rights activist and playwright