WAnne-Grethe Leine Bientie is a Norwegian writer and psalmist. She has worked extensively with South Sami church life and has written books and hymns in South Sami. She is married to the priest and psalmist Bierna Bientie.
WElizabeth Cecilia Douglas Clephane was a Scottish songwriter, who wrote the hymns "The Ninety and Nine" and "Beneath the Cross of Jesus".
WA Dictionary of Hymnology by John D. Julian, first published in 1892, was for over 100 years a standard historical reference for early Christian hymns, with more than 40,000 entries.
WEnheduanna is the earliest known poet whose name has been recorded. She was the High Priestess of the goddess Inanna and the moon god Nanna (Sin). She lived in the Sumerian city-state of Ur.
WGyānmālā Bhajan Khala is a Nepalese hymn society formed in Kathmandu in 1937. It helped to raise awareness against the oppression of the Rana regime (1846-1951), and is also a symbol of the movement for religious freedom in Nepal.
WMary Christian Dundas Hamilton was a Scottish writer and poet. She is known for writing A Hymn for Aviators (1915). The music to this hymn was composed by Charles Hubert Parry. Hamilton's verse was printed in The Times of London in 1915 and was also included in the anthology A Book of Verse of the Great War by W. Reginald Wheeler, published by Yale University in 1917.
WEmma Geraldine Henrietta Hamilton Hooper became Geraldine Dening was a British preacher and hymn writer. She was well known in the 1860s and died aged 31.
WMary Jane "Jennie" Bain Wilson was an American hymn writer.
WSusan H. Wixon was an American freethought writer, editor, feminist, and educator. She was a member of the Fall River School Board for 24 years. Wixon especially espoused the cause of women and children. In both politics and religion, she held radical views.