Literary Archives - Page 28 of 36

Jane Heap

American editor, publisher, art gallery owner, and teacher

Barney established a salon at her home that brought together artists of all nationalities, literary movements, and sexual identities; Joan Schenkar, a biographer of Barney’s lover Dorothy Wilde, calls it “the most subversive literary salon that ever existed.”

Neith Boyce

American journalist and playwright

Maeve Binchy

Irish novelist and journalist

Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy

American author

Gertrude Campbell

Irish writer, journalist, and critic

Frances Burney

English novelist and social leader

Emilie Flygare-Carlén

Swedish novelist, noted for her stories of seafaring people, fishermen, and smugglers. Many of her works have been translated into English, and she also wrote an entertaining autobiography, “Reminiscences of Swedish Literary Life” (1878).