Harriette Wilson
The cleverest courtesan of Regency London, who captivated, charmed and dazzled her way to the heart of fashionable society, only to shock, anger and terrify her way straight back out again.
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Sara Blomfield
Irish Bahá’í pioneer and humanitarian
Carmel Snow
Irish magazine editor
Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) was an intellectual of her time, writer, political figure, and perhaps among the first true feminist activists.
Rebecca West
Rebecca West famously remarked that ‘people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute’.
Muriel Spark
Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist
Gay Firth
Irish author, journalist and political campaigner
Flora Park Cave Spurdle
New Zealand historian, journalist and museum worker
Flora Nwapa
Considered Africa’s first internationally published female novelist
Flora Tristan
One of the overlooked (yet instrumental) representatives of French utopian socialism