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Nola Leigh Millar

First director of the New Zealand Drama School

Browne wrote a great deal of poetry; three three-volume novels, My share of the world: an autobiography (1861), The Castleford case (1862), and The hidden sin (1866); and The Ericksons (1852) and Our uncle the traveller’s stories (1859) for children. She published much in magazines and newspapers, including ‘Legends of Ulster’, but is remembered today chiefly for Granny’s wonderful chair and its tales of fairy times (1857).

Frances Power Cobbe

Irish feminist, journalist, anti-vivisectionist, and philanthropist

Ellen Mary Clerke

Irish journalist and writer

Ettie Annie Rout

Ettie Rout gained a public profile as a cyclist, vegetarian, freethinker and physical culturist.

Edith M Thomas

American poet and essayist

Mariana Van Rensselaer

American author, elected as honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, and in 1910 received the degree of Litt. D. from Columbia University.