Susan Fowler

Susan Joy Fowler is a writer and software engineer known for influencing institutional changes in how Uber and Silicon Valley companies respond to sexual harassment.

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Pat Parker

Pat Parker was an American poet and activist who drew from her experiences as an African-American lesbian feminist. Her poetry spoke to her difficult childhood growing up in poverty, coping with sexual assault, and the murder of her sister.

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Dorothy Osborne

Dorothy Osborne, Lady Temple was a British writer of letters, which have been published several times since their initial 1888 appearance in print.

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Marjorie Hillis

Marjorie Hillis wrote popular nonfiction books for women in the 1930s, including the bestseller Live Alone and Like It, an advice book for young women on how to live independently.

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May Gibbs

Cecilia May Gibbs MBE was an Australian children’s book writer, illustrator, and cartoonist. She is best known for her gumnut babies (also called “bush babies” or “bush fairies”), and the book Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.

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Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner was an English musicologist, novelist and poet, known for works such as the novels Lolly Willowes and After the Death of Don Juan, the poetry collection Whether a Dove or a Seagull and several short story collections.

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