Kate Wiggin
American author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,
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Lillie Devereaux Blake
American suffragist and social reformer
Mary Shelley
English author of Frankenstein
Florence Dixie
English explorer and writer
Katharine Prescott Wormeley
American translator and author
Isabel Barrows
American editor and penologist
Natalie Clifford Barney
Barney established a salon at her home that brought together artists of all nationalities, literary movements, and sexual identities; Joan Schenkar, a biographer of Barney’s lover Dorothy Wilde, calls it “the most subversive literary salon that ever existed.”
Neith Boyce
American journalist and playwright
Mina Loy
She consorted with the major 20th-century avant-garde movements—Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, and wrote poems, plays, and experimental prose; created drawings, paintings, sculptures, and assemblages; designed lampshades, toys, Christmas lights, cleaning tools, and corselets.
Gertrude Stein
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector