Elizabeth Hamilton
Irish writer
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Stéphanie Félicité
French writer and educator
Ouida
English novelist and animal rights advocate
Jane Austen
English author
Frederika Bremer
Swedish novelist whose books were translated into several languages and sold around the world.
Margaret Sangster
She became one of the popular American poets in the period following the Civil War, and her poems “Elizabeth Aged Nine,” and “Are the Children at Home?” were known the country over.
Mary Russell Mitford
English novelist and dramatist, the author of Our Village, a series of sketches of village scenes and characters, which possess charm, grace, and humor akin to Jane Austin’s.
Mary T S Putnam
Besides numerous contributions to magazines in literature and history, she wrote two metrical dramas on slavery, and made a translation from the Swedish of Fredrika Bremer’s The Neighbors.
Madeleine de Scudéry
Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) was one of the most famous French novelists of her time.
Janet Paterson Frame
For more than 20 years Frame had been annually nominated by PEN (the New Zealand Society of Authors) for the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was shortlisted twice, the second time in 2003, the year she was diagnosed with leukaemia. That year, along with Hone Tuwhare and her biographer Michael King, Frame was the recipient of an inaugural Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement.