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)
French-speaking mystic and author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of Christian mysticism on the workings of agape (divine love)
Jewish activist and journalist
New Zealand home science teacher and administrator and writer
New Zeleand teacher, journalist, feminist
Irish writer
Canadian temperance campaigner
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.
Jamaican Christian minister and community worker
One of the first women to achieve high office in the New Zealand National Party
Glasgow-based playwright and poet