Dr Jill Ker Conway
Australian-American scholar and author and the first woman to chair a listed public company in Australia.
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Susan Paul
Through her actions and teachings, educator Susan Paul instilled in her students a commitment to social justice, action, and change.
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (b.1938) is an award-winning author
Laura Redden Searing
Deaf American suffragist
Caroline Blackwood
Irish writer
Anita Leslie
Irish biographer
Elizabeth Dillon
British diarist
Sarah Patton Boyle
Sarah-Patton Boyle was one of Virginia’s most prominent white civil rights activists during the 1950s and 1960s and author of the widely acclaimed autobiography The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition (1962).
Bethany Veney
Bethany Veney was an enslaved woman who, prior to the American Civil War (1861–1865), lived in the Shenandoah Valley and, in 1889, published The Narrative of Bethany Veney, a Slave Woman.
Madeleine Riffaud
Madeleine Riffaud was a French war correspondent and poet who worked with the French Resistance during WWII