History Archives - Infinite Women

Dr Mayme Agnew Clayton

A librarian, historian, and prolific collector of African American materials, Mayme Agnew Clayton spent much of her career in the western United States.

Kylie Tennant

One of Australia’s most prominent writers in the mid-20th century, known especially for her socialist realist portrayals of the hardships of the working class and unemployed

Máire MacNeill

20th century Irish folklorist

Julia Kavanagh

1800s Irish novelist, short-story writer, and biographer

Margaret Carroll

1800s Irish-American Sister of Mercy, educator, historian, and writer

Máire McDonnell-Garvey

20th century Irish traditional musician and writer

Kathleen O’Meara

1800s Irish novelist and biographer

Jeanne Sheehy

20th century Irish art historian

Calíope Martínez

Mexican historian, academic, and cultural manager

Jennifer Homans published Apollo’s Angels in 2010, a history of classical ballet that she had been working on for ten years. It is an epic work, tracing four centuries and spanning different countries, setting the evolution of the form in the many political, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts that shaped it.