Gertrude Stein
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
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Jane Heap
American editor, publisher, art gallery owner, and teacher
Janet Flanner
Janet Flanner, who decried the personal “I,” was a technically skilled writer who found diagramming sentences and Parisian newspapers influential.
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.”
Dr Martha Carey Thomas
American educator, the first woman to receive such a doctorate at a European university, president of Bryn Mawr College.
Emily Dickinson
American poet
Adelaide Anne Procter
English poet
Amy Lowell
American poet and critic
Freda Du Faur
Du Faur is significant as the best amateur climber of her day and as the first woman to take up high climbing in New Zealand
Helen Marot
American labor leader