Aphra Behn
1600s playwright, poet and spy
1600s playwright, poet and spy
Russian princess who worked to save Jews from the Holocaust.
American literary historian, translator, and a member of the German resistance against the Nazi regime.
SOE spy in France during WWII
Jewish Argentine revolutionary and guerilla fighter
Irish humanitarian worker ‘righteous among the nations’
Frenchwoman Lucie Aubrac was a Sorbonne graduate, a schoolteacher and a committed Communist. Brought up in rural poverty between the wars, she was also a lifelong résistante against social and political oppression, including four years’ militant opposition to the Nazi Occupation of France.
Intelligence officer who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II
Irish intelligence agent
Science fiction writer under the pen name James Tiptree Jr.