Maria Atkinson
New Zealand pioneer, writer, and the first Pākehā woman to climb Mount Taranaki.
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Kate Andersen
New Zealand teacher, community leader and writer
Marion Stewart
New Zealand poultry farmer
Ellen Hewett
New Zealand writer
Agnès de Bragelongne
1200s French poetess
Zeb-un-Nissa
Mughal princess and poet
Sarojini Naidu
Indian poet and political activist
Aisha
Spanish poet circa 1000 CE
Taos Amrouche
Algerian writer and singer Taos Amrouche became the first modern Algerian woman to publish a novel in 1947, the autobiographical Jacinthe noire. It is also one of the earliest novels published in French by a North African woman writer.
Jean Devanny
A ‘vivid, valiant and temerarious’ woman, Jean Devanny overcame many of the obstacles to women achieving independence, and through her writings sought the same end for others.