Mary McGrory
Pulitzer-winning journalist
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Pearl Bailey
African-American actress, singer, comedian and author.
Edith Ronne
Antarctic explorer
Jennie Collins
In 1870, Jennie Collins founded Boffin’s Bower in Boston to provide working women with a place to read and socialize, as well as food, clothing, job placement, and other aid.
Larissa Behrendt
Indigenous Australian activist, filmmaker, academic, lawyer and writer
Ada Ramsay
Canadian schoolteacher, author, and historian
Joséphine Marchand
Canadian journalist, writer, lecturer, and feminist activist
Victoria Aveyard
Author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen series.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Judith Ortiz Cofer was one of a number of Latina writers who rose to prominence during the 1980s and 1990s.
Dr Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker’s novel Jubilee, published in 1966, is one of the first novels to present the nineteenth-century African American historical experience in the South from an African-American and female point of view.