Lillemor Rachlew
Lillemor Rachlew was one of four Norwegians who were the first women to set foot on the Antarctic mainland in 1937, for whom the Four Ladies Bank in Prydz Bay was named.
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Mina Shum
Mina Shum is the writer and director of award-winning feature films and several short films. I
Julia Peterkin
Julia Peterkin was an American author who won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Literature for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. Over her more than 50-year career, she published novels, volumes of poetry and short story collections.
Katherine Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a major modernist writer who wrote as Katherine Mansfield.
Mercedes de Acosta
Mercedes de Acosta was an American poet, playwright, and novelist who wrote almost a dozen plays, only four of which were produced, and published a novel and three volumes of poetry.
Ina Coolbrith
Ina Donna Coolbrith was an American poet, writer and librarian, prominent in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community. Called the “Sweet Singer of California”, she was the first California Poet Laureate, as well as the first poet laureate of any U.S. state.
Urani Rumbo
Urani Rumbo was an Albanian feminist, playwright and teacher who founded several associations promoting Albanian women’s rights.
Libby Riddles
Libby Riddles is an American dog musher, who became the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 20, 1985.
Ann Katharine Mitchell
Ann Katharine Mitchell was a British cryptanalyst and psychologist who worked on decrypting messages encoded in the Germans’ Enigma cypher at Bletchley Park during World War II.