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Nora Perry

American poet, journalist, and writer of children’s stories

Dr Ella Cora Hind

Canadian journalist, agriculturalist, Women’s rights activist and suffragist.

Mary Johnston

In addition to being one of the country’s bestselling authors of her day and having three silent film adaptations of her novels, Johnson was a women’s rights advocate.

Veronica Micle

She wrote both in prose and in verse, and her works were published after her death, in one volume, entitled Love and Poetry.

Anna Louisa Geetruida Bosboom-Toussaint

Dutch writer who left nearly fifty novels and sketches.

Mary Noailles Murfree

American novelist who became widely known for her graphic studies of the life and people of the Tennessee mountains.

Anna Maria Van Schurman

Dutch painter, engraver, poet, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist writer known for her exceptional learning and her defense of female education.

When Alice Candy began teaching at Canterbury College, the academic staff was, with one exception (Elizabeth Herriott, biology), entirely male. She gradually acquired the unofficial status of dean of women – and an influence on college life well above her junior academic status.