Jane Heap
American editor, publisher, art gallery owner, and teacher
American editor, publisher, art gallery owner, and teacher
English heiress to the Cunard Steamship Company, Cunard began writing poetry and published her first collection, Outlaws, in April 1921. When her third, most experimental book, Parallax (1925), was criticized as derivative of Eliot, she decided to try her at publishing instead, and in 1928 she founded the avant-garde Hours Press, which most famously published Samuel Beckett’s poem “Whoroscope” (1930).
American journalist, anti-slavery agitator and war nurse
American dress reformer, author, publisher and lecturer
Passionate about women’s rights and the cause of peace, Vroland was also a humanitarian with strong views on the treatment of Australia’s Aboriginal population; she became one of Victoria’s leading campaigners for Aboriginal rights.
That a woman of such business ability, and with heavy responsibilities, should be at the same time a society leader, is a marvel of versatility.
The distinguished writer and journalist Christine Cole Catley was one of New Zealand’s leading independent publishers of the late twentieth century. She was co-founder of the Parents Centre movement in the 1950s, and an influential teacher and shaper of broadcasting policy.
Andrea Villarreal was a teacher, poet, feminist, labor organizer, and revolutionary.