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Katherine Kane

Irish botanist and horticulturist

Josephine Hart

Irish writer, theatrical producer and poetry promoter

Willa Muir

Scottish Renaissance writer

Annie S Swan

Scottish novelist whose sentimental fiction spoke to the nostalgia of a Scottish diaspora, evoking a way of life and set of values increasingly outmoded in the modern world.

Doris Lessing

Writer, ‘political agitator’ and Communist

Vera McWeeney

Irish sportswoman and sports journalist

Kunzang Choden

Kunzang Choden is the first known Bhutanese woman to write a novel in English, 2005’s The Circle of Karma, which deals with sexism in 1950s Bhutan.

Concepción Arenal

Spanish publicist and social worker

Judy Chicago was one of the pioneers of Feminist art in the 1970s, a movement that endeavored to reflect women’s lives, call attention to women’s roles as artists, and alter the conditions under which contemporary art was produced and received.

Florine Stettheimer

A pioneer artist from early twentieth-century New York, Florine Stettheimer advanced new possibilities in painting for women artists.