Elizabeth Bowen
Irish writer
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Helen Steven
Helen had a burning passion for peace that led her to the gates of nuclear bases and into prison, to the offices of NATO commanders and round tables with army generals, into the white heat of the Vietnam War and the freezing chill of vigils, demonstrations and marches.
Auguste Fickert
Pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer.
Edna Walling
One of Australia’s most highly regarded twentieth-century garden designers and writers.
Dr Kathleen Lynn
Irish medical practitioner and political activist
Laura Aguilar
Using photography as a tool for the empowerment of her community, Laura Aguilar provided new possibilities for the depictions of subjects and bodies that had traditionally been excluded from art history.
Mary P Burrill
Mary P. Burrill was a celebrated playwright whose works inspired many prominent writers of the New Negro Movement/Harlem Renaissance. She used her plays to confront many topics, including, but not limited to, lynching, the Black experience, and bodily autonomy for women.
Alice Bradley Sheldon
Science fiction writer under the pen name James Tiptree Jr.
Gloria E Anzaldúa
Groundbreaking Chicana scholar, feminist theorist, writer, and cultural activist.
Berenice Abbott
American photographer renowned for her black-and-white photography of New York City’s architecture and urban design.