Shirley Graham Du Bois
African-American writer, composer, educator, and civil rights activist
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Nellie McClung
Social activist, politician, author, and one of the most important figures in the Canadian suffragist movement.
Agatha Christie
Internationally renowned English mystery writer and playwright
Dorothy Pakington
British religious writer
Teresa de la Parra
Venezuelan writer, considered one of the most important Latin American literary figures of the early 20th century.
Manikuntala Sen
Activist, politician and memoirist Manikuntala Sen was one of the first women active in the Communist Party of India.
Ichiyō Higuchi
Meiji Period writer Ichiyō Higuchi was the first woman in Japan to write modern literature professionally, particularly short stories and poetry, as well as extensive diary accounts.
Kazunomiya
Japanese princess and waka poet.
Jane Wilde
Irish poet, nationalist, and feminist
Fatimah Rifaat
Egyptian writer