Mary Hobhouse
1800s Irish novelist and poet
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Dr Margaret Harper
Paediatrician and the first woman to be appointed to the honorary staff of Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children; the Medical Officer of the first baby clinic established in New South Wales (1914); the first Director of the Mothercraft Homes and Nurses’ Training Schools; the first person to differentiate between coeliac disease and cystic fibrosis.
Ethel Hassell
Australian anthropologist
Nannie Power O’Donoghue
Irish journalist, equestrian and writer
Florence Irwin
Irish educator
Frances Sheridan
1700s Irish writer
Helen Waddell
Irish scholar, translator, and author
Florence Mary Wilson
Irish poet
Edith Coleman
Edith Coleman was a naturalist who wrote prolifically on a wide range of animals and published in both scientific journals and the popular press.
Hannah Davis Richards
Hannah Davis Richards, born in 1804, taught at the Baker Street School, the first schoolhouse in West Roxbury, Boston. Hannah’s diary provides valuable insights into life in early 19th-century West Roxbury and is an important historical source.