Mary Pearse
Co-founded the Leinster Stage Society, for which she wrote some original pieces and adapted some Dickens for the stage. They had moderate success until a calamitous run at the Cork opera house in 1912.
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Dorothy Levitt
Dubbed ‘the Fastest Girl on Earth’, Dorothy Levitt was an early motorist who competed in speed trials and long distance races, setting the Ladies World Speed record in the Brighton Speed Trials of 1905, by driving her Napier racing car at 79.75 mph.
Rebecca Hardin Davis
American novelist and miscellaneous writer
Aisha Taymur
Egyptian writer and women’s rights activist
Ruth McEnery Stuart
American story-writer
Susan Bogert Warner
American novelist, known under the pen name of Elizabeth Wetherell. She wrote a number of stories, usually with moral teachings, and collaborated with her sister Anna, but she is chiefly remembered for her very successful novel, The Wide, Wide World, published in 1851.
Mary Cowden Clarke
English writer
Margaret Oliphant
English novelist and biographer
Biruta Skujeniece
Biruta Skujeniece often appeared on the stage of the Latvian theatre, but she made a name for herself chiefly as an elocutionist.
Nora Perry
American poet, journalist, and writer of children’s stories