Writer Archives - Page 60 of 155

Anna Brassey

Baroness Brassey, traveller and author

Grace Aguilar

Spanish Jewish novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion

Alison Cockburn

Scottish poet, wit and socialite who collected a circle of eminent friends in 18th-century enlightenment Edinburgh

Juliana Morell

Dominican nun and child prodigy in the arts and sciences in the 1600s.

Nina Hamnett

Welsh artist and writer Nina Hamnett was renowned as the “Queen of Bohemia” in the early 20th-century artistic circles of Paris and London.

Emilie Malcolm

New Zealand homemaker and writer

New Zealander Gwen Somerset had a distinguished career as a progressive teacher of young children in primary school, as an adult educator, and as a pioneer of free play in preschool education. Her lectures and her writing inspired generations of playcentre members and shaped their beliefs and practices.