Janet Flanner
Janet Flanner, who decried the personal “I,” was a technically skilled writer who found diagramming sentences and Parisian newspapers influential.
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Nancy Cunard
English heiress to the Cunard Steamship Company, Cunard began writing poetry and published her first collection, Outlaws, in April 1921. When her third, most experimental book, Parallax (1925), was criticized as derivative of Eliot, she decided to try her at publishing instead, and in 1928 she founded the avant-garde Hours Press, which most famously published Samuel Beckett’s poem “Whoroscope” (1930).
Neith Boyce
American journalist and playwright
Maureen Charlton
Irish playwright, poet and broadcaster
Harriet Chalmers Adams
American explorer, war correspondent and lecturer
Maeve Binchy
Irish novelist and journalist
Gertrude Campbell
Irish writer, journalist, and critic
Grace Winifred Green
Green chalked up many firsts as a woman radio announcer in New Zealand and was always popular with listeners.
Lydia Maria Child
American writer whose 1825 novel, “The Rebels, a Tale of the Revolution,” was very popular.
Ethna Carbery
Irish poet, writer, and journalist