Hilda Rollett
New Zealand teacher, journalist and writer
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Jane Mander
New Zealand journalist
Ida Lough
One of New Zealand’s best tapestry makers in the 1900s
Katrine Mackay
lthough Katrine had no formal schooling after the age of 10, at 17 she was reckoned to be ‘a prodigy in literature’, as by then she had published serially in the Australian Journal a novel, ‘Eve’s Sacrifice’, and had numerous novelettes and short stories printed in the Australasian, Hamilton Spectator and Sydney Bulletin.
Essie Summers
New Zealand’s most celebrated writer of romantic fiction
Elsie K Morton
New Zealand writer and journalist
Amparo Poch y Gascón
Amparo Poch y Gascón was a significant Spanish figure in the fields of anarchism, pacifism, medicine, and activism during the Spanish Civil War.
Nadezhda Durova
Nadezhda Andreyevna Durova, under the guise of a man, achieved distinction as a decorated soldier within the Russian cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars. She was one of the earliest documented female officers in the Russian military.
Steinvǫr Sighvatsdóttir
Steinvǫr Sighvatsdóttir was a remarkable figure in Icelandic history during the Age of the Sturlungs. She was both a pivotal political player and a celebrated skald, officially recognized in Skáldatal.
Emma Goldman
Russian-born Jewish anarchist, political activist, and writer who greatly influenced anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe during the first half of the 20th century.