Christina Rossetti
Poetess of the Spiritual Life
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Adah Isaacs Menken
Actress Adah Isaacs Menken was noted as a woman of extraordinary beauty, culture, and brilliancy. She was famous for her marriages and divorces, and a volume of poetry by her was published as Infelicia (1868).
Blanche Edith Baughan
In addition to her work for penal reform, Blanche Baughan was an outspoken opponent of capital punishment, a financial supporter of the Red Cross and a member of the Akaroa Borough Council. Baughan was recognised for her contribution to social services with the award of the King George V Jubilee Medal in 1935. For her literary work she deserves recognition for indicating new directions in the nation’s literary history and as a significant harbinger of change in early New Zealand poetry.
Alice Annie Kenny
One of New Zealand’s most assiduous but least-remembered writers
Alice Meynell
English poet, suffragist essayist and critic
Fanny Crosby
Blind song writer who wrote more than 2500 hymns besides many secular songs, cantatas, and lyrical productions of various kinds.
Alice Cary
American writer
Eve Maria Langley
During the 1930s Eve Langley had begun writing poetry and short stories, and these were widely published in New Zealand periodicals.
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
One of the most gifted and original of German women poets.
Louise A Bertin
French poet and composer