Mathilde Fibiger
Danish writer
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Georgette Heyer
Full of young women navigating high society, handsome men with more money than sense, duels, danger, and romance, Georgette Heyer’s novels paint a world that was far from the one lived in by the 1920s and ‘30s readers who were the first to eagerly flock to her work.
Emilia Pardo Bazán
Spanish writer and novelist
Toru Dutt
Bengali poet and translator
Růžena Svobodová
Czech writer
Rosario Orrego
Chilean poet
Rosalía de Castro
She enjoyed little fame during her lifetime, but criticism now proclaims her the greatest Spanish poet of her generation.
Mary Manning
Mary Manning was one of a handful of women active behind the camera in Ireland’s two waves of silent film production.
Josefa Acevedo Sánchez
Colombian writer
Aisha Taymur
Egyptian writer and women’s rights activist