The library´s highlight in May is the first book of poetry by an Icelandic woman, Stúlka (A Girl), which the author, Júlíana Jónsdóttir (1838-1917), published at her own expense in 1876. Júlíana was born in Búrfell in Hálsasveit in Borgarfjörður, but grew up in Rauðsgil in Reykholtsdalur with her maternal grandfather and his wife. She worked as a laborer in Akureyjar islands in Breiðafjörður from 1860 to 1874. From there, Júlíana moved to Stykkishólmur and later to Reykjavík. In Stykkishólmur she worked various jobs and also took an active part in the activities of the theater company. Júlíana wrote the play Víg Kjartan Ólafssonar, which is based on Laxdæla saga. The play was staged in Stykkishólmur in 1879, and Júlíana herself was in the  main female role of Guðrún Ósvífursdóttir. The play is preserved in the library´s  manuscript collection and is the oldest surviving play by an Icelandic woman.

Júlíana moved to Canada in 1886, and worked there mainly as a childminder and in domestic help. She lived in various places depending on where work was available at each time, most of the time on poor terms. In the West she wrote another book of poetry, Hagalagðar, which was published in Winnipeg in 1916. Very few manuscripts related to Júlíana have survived, and nothing in her own handwriting except for four letters she wrote to her friend Ingibjörg Bjarnadóttir in Seattle in December 1916 and January 1917. They are preserved at the Women's History Archives.