Charlotte O’Conor Eccles
Irish journalist and novelist
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Elizabeth Griffith
Irish playwright, novelist, and actress
Marija Jurić Zagorka
The first professional political journalist in Croatia and South East Europe, a women’s rights’ advocate, one of the most widely-read Croatian writers ever, a co-founder of the Croatian Journalists Association, a novelist, a playwright, a screenwriter, one of the early pioneers of science fiction, the founder of the first women’s trade union organization in Croatia.
Unica Zürn
German surrealist artist and writer
Annie M P Smithson
Irish author, nurse, republican and trade unionist
Josephine Hart
Irish writer, theatrical producer and poetry promoter
Willa Muir
Scottish Renaissance writer
Annie S Swan
Scottish novelist whose sentimental fiction spoke to the nostalgia of a Scottish diaspora, evoking a way of life and set of values increasingly outmoded in the modern world.
Doris Lessing
Writer, ‘political agitator’ and Communist
Kunzang Choden
Kunzang Choden is the first known Bhutanese woman to write a novel in English, 2005’s The Circle of Karma, which deals with sexism in 1950s Bhutan.