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Barbara Winifred Matthews

As writers and passionate gardeners, Jim and Barbara Matthews informed and inspired countless New Zealand gardeners.

Margaret Escott

Margaret Escott is best remembered as the author of the novel Show down.

Catherine Duncan

Catherine Duncan was an actor, playwright, film-maker and author who became the first woman credited as director in an Australian film since the McDonagh sisters in the 1930s.

American essayist and critic who contributed to many periodicals such as Scribner’s and the Atlantic Monthly, and has spent much of her time in Europe. Her essays are distinguished for dignity of treatment, a lucid style, and a delicate sense of humor, with not a little irony.

Albion Fellows Bacon

American reformer who secured for Indiana a tenement-house law

Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier

Scottish novelist who wrote three novels: Marriage, The Inheritance, and Destiny, all vigorous and lively pictures of Scottish life and character, written in clear, brisk English, with an inexhaustible fund of humor.

Sarah Orne Jewett

American novelist, and writer of short stories who excelled in the simple and intimate portrayal of New England character in its finer and gentler moods.

Saint Catherine of Siena

Saint Catherine of Siena as a child believed herself to have seen a holy vision, and became convinced that God Himself had come to call her to a better life. She gave up childish amusements, and, fasting and praying, even scourging herself, she filled her life with penances in the manner of the grown-up holy men and women about her.