Rihi Puhiwahine Te Rangi-hirawea
The most famous of the women of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Maniapoto in the nineteenth century was undoubtedly Rihi Puhiwahine Te Rangi-hirawea.
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Caroline Elizabeth Norton
English poet and novelist
Fanny Crosby
Blind song writer who wrote more than 2500 hymns besides many secular songs, cantatas, and lyrical productions of various kinds.
Mathilde de Castro Marchesi
French singing teacher
Mary Stuart
Queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567
Christine Nilsson
Swedish singer and composer
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
One of the most gifted and original of German women poets.
Louise A Bertin
French poet and composer
Sydney Morgan
Irish novelist Lady Morgan wrote many other books and was one of the most vivid and hotly discussed literary figures of her generation.
Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
After her husband’s death in 1758 she took the reins of government, and held them so well that Saxe-Weimar was able speedily to recover from the effects of the Seven Years’ War, and escaped the famine of 1773.