Agnès de Bragelongne
1200s French poetess
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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.
Dorothy Neal White
New Zealand librarian and writer
Ngoi Pēwhairangi
Ngāti Porou shearer, performer, teacher, songwriter and cultural adviser
Máire MacSwiney Brugha
Irish teacher, author and charity worker
Veronica Guerin
Irish journalist