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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

American poet and philanthropist

Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a prominent activist in the fields of Māori welfare and health from the 1970s to the 1990s. She was a long-serving member and president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and an acclaimed researcher in the area of Māori women’s health. She also served on the Human Rights Commission and in a wide variety of other public positions. An accomplished actor, singer and orator, she also composed waiata and poetry.

Jessie Mackay

Jessie Mackay’s crusading spirit informed her poetry, and her poetry is a record of all the causes she held dear.

Mary Davys

Irish novelist, playwright, and poet

Rhoda Coghill

Irish pianist, composer, and poet

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.

Josephine Preston Peabody

American poet and dramatist

Mina Loy

She consorted with the major 20th-century avant-garde movements—Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, and wrote poems, plays, and experimental prose; created drawings, paintings, sculptures, and assemblages; designed lampshades, toys, Christmas lights, cleaning tools, and corselets.

Gertrude Stein

American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector

Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov remains an influential poet of the mid-twentieth century American group known as the Black Mountain School.