Margery Kempe
English Christian mystic, known for The Book of Margery Kempe, possibly the first autobiography in the English language.
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Berta Burns
One of the first women to achieve high office in the New Zealand National Party
Elizabeth Clark
Glasgow-based playwright and poet
Marjorie Fleming
One of the most famous child diarists, Kirkcaldy-born Marjorie Fleming (1803-1811), tested the use of language as well as acceptable topics of conversation through her writing.
Emily Pepys
10 year-old English diarist Emily Pepys (1833-1877) documented her quest for the kind of knowledge which was off-limits.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Though far more famous and wealthy than the average flapper, Sayre-Fitzgerald’s life as both a flapper and the wife of America’s most famous author of the decade – who plaigerized her work – represented the inner-conflict American flappers felt at home and in society.
Anna Wheeler
1800s Irish pioneer feminist and reformer
Harriette Wilson
The cleverest courtesan of Regency London, who captivated, charmed and dazzled her way to the heart of fashionable society, only to shock, anger and terrify her way straight back out again.
Sara Blomfield
Irish Bahá’í pioneer and humanitarian
Carmel Snow
Irish magazine editor