Unica Zürn
German surrealist artist and writer
German surrealist artist and writer
Frenchwoman Lucie Aubrac was a Sorbonne graduate, a schoolteacher and a committed Communist. Brought up in rural poverty between the wars, she was also a lifelong résistante against social and political oppression, including four years’ militant opposition to the Nazi Occupation of France.
One of New Zealand’s most popular and successful non-fiction authors of the 1960s and 1970s.
First woman to write a serious book about America; first person to set up an experimental colony, Nashoba near Memphis, with the object of enabling enslaved people to work for their freedom; first woman to co-edit a newspaper in America, first female public orator in America.
Peace and human rights activist
Ancient Greek lyric poet from the fifth century BCE
Pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer.
Aboriginal Australian welfare worker and elder of Kungarakany and Gurindji descent
One of Australia’s most highly regarded twentieth-century garden designers and writers.
Australian welfare worker