Amelia Edwards
English novelist and egyptologist
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Elisabeth of Wied
Queen of Romania, known as “Carmen Sylva”, a poet and novelist who fostered the higher education of women in Romania
Elizabeth Hamilton
Irish writer
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.