Mary Shelley
English author of Frankenstein
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Gertrude Stein
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
Jane Heap
American editor, publisher, art gallery owner, and teacher
Natalie Clifford Barney
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).