Alice Rahon
Alice Rahon is best known as a poet and painter whose work straddled modern, ancient, and pre-historic cultures.
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Anna Akhmatova
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova used poetry to give voice to the struggles and deepest yearnings of the Russian people, for whom she remains the greatest of literary heroines.
Alice Perry
Irish engineer and Christian Scientist
Dorothea Du Bois
Irish poet, novelist, and playwright
Eleanor Alexander
A delegate from Armagh to the first meeting of the Women’s National Health Association of Ireland (April 1908), she was awarded the MBE (1918) for war work, having been in charge of an auxiliary military hospital.
Pari Khan Khanum
Daughter of Shah Tahmasp, Pari Khan Khanum took on a political role during her father’s reign, helping him to rule during his last years of illness in 1500s Iran.
Kazunomiya
Japanese princess and waka poet.
Jane Wilde
Irish poet, nationalist, and feminist
Alice Furlong
Irish poet
Mary Lloyd
Little-known English poet