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Leona Vicario

Heroine of Mexican Independence

Marija Pēkšēna

The first Latvian woman playwright.

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.

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.