Janet Flanner

Janet Flanner, who decried the personal “I,” was a technically skilled writer who found diagramming sentences and Parisian newspapers influential.

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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.”

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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

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