Elizabeth Griffith
Irish playwright, novelist, and actress
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Marija Jurić Zagorka
The first professional political journalist in Croatia and South East Europe, a women’s rights’ advocate, one of the most widely-read Croatian writers ever, a co-founder of the Croatian Journalists Association, a novelist, a playwright, a screenwriter, one of the early pioneers of science fiction, the founder of the first women’s trade union organization in Croatia.
Valda Grieve
Cornish poet
Unica Zürn
German surrealist artist and writer
Lucie Aubrac
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.
Mona Anderson
One of New Zealand’s most popular and successful non-fiction authors of the 1960s and 1970s.
Frances Wright
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.
Hazel Rennie
Peace and human rights activist
Auguste Fickert
Pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer.
Telesilla
Ancient Greek lyric poet from the fifth century BCE