Margery Kempe
English Christian mystic, known for The Book of Margery Kempe, possibly the first autobiography in the English language.
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Marguerite Porete
French-speaking mystic and author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of Christian mysticism on the workings of agape (divine love)
Martha Gruening
Jewish activist and journalist
Elizabeth Anne Gard’ner
New Zealand home science teacher and administrator and writer
Dolce Ann Cabot
New Zeleand teacher, journalist, feminist
Elizabeth Bowen
Irish writer
Letitia Youmans
Canadian temperance campaigner
Madeleine Smith
Madeleine Smith’s trial for the murder of her lover, Emile L’Angelier, in 1857, combined those twin Victorian obsessions, sex and death, in a way that not only led to questions about womanhood in general, but about the whole fabric of society.
Madge Saunders
Jamaican Christian minister and community worker
Berta Burns
One of the first women to achieve high office in the New Zealand National Party