Annie S Swan
Scottish novelist whose sentimental fiction spoke to the nostalgia of a Scottish diaspora, evoking a way of life and set of values increasingly outmoded in the modern world.
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Doris Lessing
Writer, ‘political agitator’ and Communist
Kunzang Choden
Kunzang Choden is the first known Bhutanese woman to write a novel in English, 2005’s The Circle of Karma, which deals with sexism in 1950s Bhutan.
Erminda Esler
Irish author
Alice Bradley Sheldon
Science fiction writer under the pen name James Tiptree Jr.
Dorothea Du Bois
Irish poet, novelist, and playwright
Eleanor Alexander
A delegate from Armagh to the first meeting of the Women’s National Health Association of Ireland (April 1908), she was awarded the MBE (1918) for war work, having been in charge of an auxiliary military hospital.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
Canadian author and journalist
Ding Ling
Prominent Chinese writer and intellectual of the 1900s.
Nellie McClung
Social activist, politician, author, and one of the most important figures in the Canadian suffragist movement.