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Alice Morse Earle

American writer on colonial history.

Frances Burney

English novelist and social leader

Lydia Maria Child

American writer whose 1825 novel, “The Rebels, a Tale of the Revolution,” was very popular.

Swedish novelist, noted for her stories of seafaring people, fishermen, and smugglers. Many of her works have been translated into English, and she also wrote an entertaining autobiography, “Reminiscences of Swedish Literary Life” (1878).

Marguerite of Navarre

French politician, religious reformer, literary patron, and author.

Emily Crawford

Irish journalist who developed a popular new approach to journalism and an unconventional and epigrammatic style while writing from France.

Ethna Carbery

Irish poet, writer, and journalist

Nola Leigh Millar

First director of the New Zealand Drama School

Frances Browne

Browne wrote a great deal of poetry; three three-volume novels, My share of the world: an autobiography (1861), The Castleford case (1862), and The hidden sin (1866); and The Ericksons (1852) and Our uncle the traveller’s stories (1859) for children. She published much in magazines and newspapers, including ‘Legends of Ulster’, but is remembered today chiefly for Granny’s wonderful chair and its tales of fairy times (1857).