Elizabeth Bowen
Irish writer
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Letitia Youmans
Canadian temperance campaigner
Madeleine Smith
Madeleine Smith’s trial for the murder of her lover, Emile L’Angelier, in 1857, combined those twin Victorian obsessions, sex and death, in a way that not only led to questions about womanhood in general, but about the whole fabric of society.
Madge Saunders
Jamaican Christian minister and community worker
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