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Ann Cotton

Ann Cotton wrote one of the earliest personal accounts of Bacon’s Rebellion (1676–1677).

Anna Maria Mead Chalmers authored numerous children’s books in the 1830s, later wrote short works of fiction and devotion, and contributed to the Boston Home Journal, the New York Churchman, the New York Tribune, and the Southern Literary Messenger.

Annie Henry Christian

Annie Henry Christian was the sister of Patrick Henry and an early settler of the Virginia backcountry, and eventually Kentucky, who wrote the best first-person account of that era of westward migration that survives from any woman.

Asenath Nicholson

1800s Irish traveller and social reformer

Eugenia Thornton-Silver

Well-known Cleveland book reviewer and lecturer.

Anne Rivers Siddons

Though all of her twenty books are set in Georgia (US) or concern southerners living elsewhere, Anne Rivers Siddons was best known for books about Atlanta and its environs.

Margaret Browne

In 1893, she published the first Australian Garden Guide written by a woman, “The Flower Garden in Australia. A book for Ladies and Amateurs”.

Ola Cohn

Australian sculptor and philanthropist Ola Cohn left a lasting impression on Victoria’s art world.

Hyllus Maris

Aunty Hyllus Maris was a Wurundjeri, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta activist, poet, scriptwriter and educator

Emily Caroline Barnett

From January 1883, Barnett kept a detailed diary that recorded descriptions of her Australian tip trip including topography, vegetation, observations of frontier life, and commentary on white and Aboriginal relations.