Signe Toksvig
Danish novelist, biographer, and diarist
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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
American poet and philanthropist
Maria Parloa
American domestic economist and author. She was an authority on the proper preparation of food and on household management upon which subjects she lectured and wrote extensively.
Mary C Ames
American author, best known by her Woman’s Letter from Washington, contributed for many years to the New York Independent.
Mary Hunter Austin
American author and dramatist
Sara Coleridge
English writer
Sara Teasdale
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Susanne Day
Irish writer and suffragist
Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie
Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a prominent activist in the fields of Māori welfare and health from the 1970s to the 1990s. She was a long-serving member and president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and an acclaimed researcher in the area of Māori women’s health. She also served on the Human Rights Commission and in a wide variety of other public positions. An accomplished actor, singer and orator, she also composed waiata and poetry.
Enga Washbourn
Working almost entirely in watercolours, Enga Washbourn painted landscapes, historical buildings and a few portraits. She depicted scenes in Nelson, Golden Bay, Canterbury and the West Coast. Unique in style, her paintings became known for their clarity, simplicity, colour, light and movement.