Flora Nwapa
Considered Africa’s first internationally published female novelist
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Valda Grieve
Cornish poet
Unica Zürn
German surrealist artist and writer
Hazel Rennie
Peace and human rights activist
Telesilla
Ancient Greek lyric poet from the fifth century BCE
Concepción Arenal
Spanish publicist and social worker
Florine Stettheimer
A pioneer artist from early twentieth-century New York, Florine Stettheimer advanced new possibilities in painting for women artists.
Mary O’Neill
Irish poet and playwright
Alice Rahon
Alice Rahon is best known as a poet and painter whose work straddled modern, ancient, and pre-historic cultures.
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova used poetry to give voice to the struggles and deepest yearnings of the Russian people, for whom she remains the greatest of literary heroines.