Rupi Kaur
Indian-Canadian poet and artist
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Eiluned Lewis
Welsh journalist and writer
Kate Bosse-Griffiths
She made a unique contribution to twentieth-century Welsh literature by introducing modernist themes not discussed in Welsh previously and is remembered as an eminent Welsh Egyptologist.
Maya Deren
At a time when American filmmaking fell into the category of either classical Hollywood or realist documentary, Maya Deren conceived of a third, poetic, alternative.
Eileen Blair
British poet and psychologist
Bianca Pucciarelli Menna
Italian poet and performance artist
Anne Vavasour
Courtier Anne Vavasour is recognised as the inspiration for and protagonist of the poem, Anne Vavasour’s Echo, written circa 1581. It has also been suggested that she is the poem’s true author, as well as the poet behind Though I seem strange sweet friend, but both are more commonly attributed to her lover, Edward de Vere.
Li Qingzhao
Song dynasty poet Li Qingzhao wrote in depth about how much she loved alcohol, which was widely deemed inappropriate for a woman, as was the fact that she dared to divorce a man who mistreated her.
Elizabeth Siddall
The model for some of the most famous Pre-Raphaelite paintings hanging in museums, as well as a poet and artist who produced more than 100 watercolours, sketches, and drawings
Elizabeth Bishop
U.S. Consultant in Poetry, 1949-1950