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Dorothy Levitt
Dubbed ‘the Fastest Girl on Earth’, Dorothy Levitt was an early motorist who competed in speed trials and long distance races, setting the Ladies World Speed record in the Brighton Speed Trials of 1905, by driving her Napier racing car at 79.75 mph.
Rebecca Hardin Davis
American novelist and miscellaneous writer
Nora Perry
American poet, journalist, and writer of children’s stories
Dr Ella Cora Hind
Canadian journalist, agriculturalist, Women’s rights activist and suffragist.
Alexandra Gripenberg
Finnish author and women’s rights activist
Jane Cunningham Croly
American author, and journalist, better known as Jennie June
Joan Isabel Faulkner-Blake
Her interest in history led to the collection of taped reminiscences from Māori and early European settlers. From this material she made several radio series on the early pioneers of Taranaki, the Māori traditions and legends of the mountains Egmont (Taranaki), Ngauruhoe, Tongariro and Ruapehu, and on the national parks of New Zealand.
Frona Eunice Wait
American journalist
Zuhra Karim
Pakistani-British journalist and magazine founder/editor