Assia Djebar
Best known by her pen name Assia Djebar, Fatima-Zohra Imalayen was an Algerian feminist novelist, translator and filmmaker, considered one of North Africa’s most influential writers.
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Janet Flanner
Janet Flanner, who decried the personal “I,” was a technically skilled writer who found diagramming sentences and Parisian newspapers influential.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
American poet and essayist
Gene Stratton-Porter
American author and ornithologist
Geraldine Farrar
American dramatic soprano
Kathleen O’Brien
For most of the 1950s Kathleen O’Brien was the only woman directing films in New Zealand.
Catherine Duncan
Catherine Duncan was an actor, playwright, film-maker and author who became the first woman credited as director in an Australian film since the McDonagh sisters in the 1930s.
Genni Batterham
Australian artist, author, disability rights activist and filmmaker
Gabrielle Réjane
French actress, called “the very essence of the Parisienne.”
Phyllis Glory McDonagh
In 1926, three remarkable sisters made history by becoming the first Australian women to own and run a film production company. They were also among the first to produce a talkie in Australia.