Edith Somerville
Irish writer
Irish writer
Irish novelist
New Zealand teacher, novelist, journalist, feminist
Irish novelist, playwright, and political activist
Glasgow-based playwright and poet
Irish author, journalist and political campaigner
Rebecca West famously remarked that ‘people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute’.
Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist
Considered Africa’s first internationally published female novelist
Irish journalist and novelist