Adelaide Casely-Hayford
Sierra Leone activist, teacher and fiction writer Adelaide Casely-Hayford advocated for the Creole community, cultural nationalism, feminism and education for women and girls.
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Aagje Deken
Dutch novelist
Marija Pečkauskaitė
Lithuanian writer (pen name “Satrijos Ragana”) best known for her children’s books.
Zuhra Karim
Pakistani-British journalist and magazine founder/editor
Fátima de Madrid
Astronomer and writer
Lois Weber
Lois Weber was the leading female director-screenwriter in early Hollywood.
Vera Douie
During her 41 years at the Women’s Library, she had developed it from a few bookcases for the use of members into a major research collection.
Julia Frankau
Irish art historian and novelist
Veronica Wedgwood
Despite never holding an academic post Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood was a well known and respected historian and public intellectual.
Beatrice Webb
One of the four founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science.