Elizabeth Emmet Lenox-Conyngham
Irish poet and translator
Irish poet and translator
Irish biographer
British diarist
Emily Tapscott Clark was a writer and the founding editor of The Reviewer, a literary magazine that helped spark the Southern Literary Renaissance—a movement in southern letters that turned away from glorifying the Old South in sentimental narratives and instead moved toward writing about themes of race, gender, identity, and the burden of history in the South.
Sarah-Patton Boyle was one of Virginia’s most prominent white civil rights activists during the 1950s and 1960s and author of the widely acclaimed autobiography The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition (1962).
Bethany Veney was an enslaved woman who, prior to the American Civil War (1861–1865), lived in the Shenandoah Valley and, in 1889, published The Narrative of Bethany Veney, a Slave Woman.
Irish poet and artist
One of the leading cartoonists for the New Yorker, since 1978 she has published more than one thousand cartoons in the magazine.
As her cartoons for Ms. Magazine in the 1980s demonstrate, Signe Wilkinson addressed women’s issues early in her career.
Australian-born American/U.K. actress celebrated mostly for her stage work on Broadway.