Gwen Moffat
Brighton’s first female mountain guide, followed by a career as a successful author.
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Margaret Avis
Letter writer and source of local history information
Georgette Heyer
Full of young women navigating high society, handsome men with more money than sense, duels, danger, and romance, Georgette Heyer’s novels paint a world that was far from the one lived in by the 1920s and ‘30s readers who were the first to eagerly flock to her work.
Paula Gaidule
Latvian educator
Emilia Pardo Bazán
Spanish writer and novelist
Ottilie Wildermuth
German children’s book writer
Rosalía de Castro
She enjoyed little fame during her lifetime, but criticism now proclaims her the greatest Spanish poet of her generation.
Rosa Duarte
Dominican writer and activist
Toru Dutt
Bengali poet and translator
Francisca Josefa del Castillo
Spanish religious writer