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Catherine
Flourished early 4th century A.D., Alexandria, EgyptAccording to legend, Catherine was a religious scholar of noble birth who publicly attempted to convert pagans to Christianity, a crime punishable by death in the Roman empire. Determined to... Read more
Eugenia
b. Egypt, date uncertain; d. circa A.D. 257, RomeAccording to legend, Eugenia was a Roman virgin, daughter of a governor of Egypt, who disguised herself as a man for much of her life and succeeded in becoming the... Read more
Hestiaea
Flourished circa 250 B.C., Alexandria, EgyptAlthough none of her writings are extant, we know of Hestiaea through the Greek geographer Strabo (64/64 B.C.–circa A.D. 23). She was a literary scholar who wrote a treatise on... Read more
Doris Lessing
b. 1919, Kermanshah, IranDoris Lessing spent her childhood in southern Africa (modern-day Zimbabwe) reading the great modern English and Russian novelists. After moving to London in 1949, she published her first novel, The... Read more
Olive Schreiner
b. 1855, Wittebergan, Cape Colony [now in South Africa]; d. 1920, Cape TownOlive Schreiner, South African novelist, social activist, and political leader, wrote the groundbreaking novel The Story of an African Farm (1883). In her writing and in her life, Schreiner was... Read more
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