Elizabeth Casey
Irish author (as ‘E. Owens Blackburne ’)
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Anna Kelly
Irish journalist
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney
American poet and writer, who published more than 20 books for girls
Ada Palmer Roberts
1800s American poet
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
1800s British archaeologist
Dorothy Cottrell
Disabled Australian author Dorothy Cottrell was ‘the Liane Moriarty of the Jazz Age’ but is almost unheard of here
Dr Johnnetta Betsch Cole
A scholar, anthropologist, and academic pace-setter, Johnnetta Betsch Cole’s pioneering work about the on-going contributions of Afro-Latin, Caribbean, and African communities have advanced American understanding of Black culture and the necessity and power of racial inclusion in the US.
Dr Elizabeth Alexander
Poet, scholar, and cultural advocate; a nationally recognized thought leader on race, justice, and American society and president of the Mellon Foundation, the largest funder of the arts, culture, and humanities in the United States.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston chronicles the lives of Chinese Americans facing the ghosts of the past in present-day America.
Darlene Clark Hine
“When I decided to become a historian,” recalls Darlene Clark Hine, “the last group I intended to study was black women.” That these words come from arguably the most influential scholar of African-American women’s history reflects the intertwined evolution of a career and field of study shaped by a struggle for recognition and legitimacy.