Nellie McClung
Social activist, politician, author, and one of the most important figures in the Canadian suffragist movement.
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Agatha Christie
Internationally renowned English mystery writer and playwright
Fatimah Rifaat
Egyptian writer
Gertie Gaffney
Irish journalist
Patrice Lawrence
British author and journalist
Elizabeth Robins
American-Anglo stage actress
Catherine Cookson
Popular and widely read 20th-century British novelist
Frederika Runeberg
Author and pioneer of the feminist movement in Finland.
Eliza Orzeszkowa
Belarussian/Polish author
Hanna Wisnes
Under the pseudonym of “Hugo Schwarz” she wrote several novels, an excellent book for children, and some popular nursery rhymes. Her principal work, which she wrote under her own name, is the Textbook in Cookery (1845).