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Explorer, hiker and mountaineer; Truda Peaks of Mount Rogers is named after her Mabel Bent: Anglo-Irish: 1847: 1929: Explored and excavated with her husband James Theodore Bent in the Eastern Mediterranean, South Africa and Southern Arabia Laura Bingham: British: 1992: Executed expedition to cross continent of South America with no money ...
Nadezhda Andreyevna Durova (Russian: Надежда Андреевна Дурова; September 17, 1783 – March 21, 1866), also known as Alexander Durov, Alexander Sokolov and Alexander Andreevich Alexandrov, was a Russian cavalry soldier and writer who participated in the Napoleonic Wars.
Other similar novels of the period include Jessamy (1967) by Barbara Sleigh. In Jessamy, written in a matter-of-fact style, a young girl experiences a time-slip, with the narrative switching between World War I and the present day. In both novels, people, places and items which were seen in the past show up again in the present day narrative.
Louise Arner Boyd (September 16, 1887 – September 14, 1972) was an American explorer of Greenland and the Arctic, who wrote extensively of her scientific expeditions.She became the first woman to fly over the North Pole in 1955, after privately chartering a DC-4 and crew that included aviation pioneers Thor Solberg and Paul Mlinar.
"Girls at War" is a 1972 short story by Chinua Achebe. The narrative focuses on the essence of survival amidst the uncertainties of war. Through the protagonist , Reginald Nwankwo, the story unfolds the intricacies of determination, resilience, and the human spirit's quest for survival. [ 1 ]
Chawton House Library: Women's Novels; Collective 18th-century biographies of literary women; Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology; Feminist literary criticism; Feminist science fiction; Feminist theory; Gender in science fiction; List of biographical dictionaries of female writers; List of early-modern British women novelists
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The Post Office Girl (German: Rausch der Verwandlung, which roughly means The Intoxication of Transformation) is a novel by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.It tells the story of Christine Hoflehner, a female post-office clerk in a small town near Vienna, Austria-Hungary, during the poverty-stricken years following World War I.