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Assia Djebar

Best known by her pen name Assia Djebar, Fatima-Zohra Imalayen was an Algerian feminist novelist, translator and filmmaker, considered one of North Africa’s most influential writers.

Juliette Adam

French writer whose Novelle Revue, founded in 1879, and salon were politically influential

Kate Wiggin

American author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,

Gertrude Stein

American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector

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.”