Louisa Lawson
Louisa Lawson was an outstanding leader in the campaign for women’s right in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Agnes Strickland
English historical writer
Elisabeth of Wied
Queen of Romania, known as “Carmen Sylva”, a poet and novelist who fostered the higher education of women in Romania
Lucy Larcom
Mill girl, teacher and poet
Helen Hunt Jackson
Writer, poet and advocate for native Americans
Tarquinia Molza
Italian Singer, Poet, Conductor, Composer and Scholar
Radegund of Poitiers
Thuringian princess and Frankish queen, founder of a scholarly abbey
Joanna Baillie
No authoress ever enjoyed a larger share than Joanna Baillie of the esteem and affection of her literary contemporaries.
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 Wortley Montagu
English author and letter-writer, who promoted the practice of inoculation against smallpox in Britain.