Marianne Moore
Her Collected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize (1951), the National Book Award (1952), and the Bollingen Prize (1953).
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Nancy Cunard
English heiress to the Cunard Steamship Company, Cunard began writing poetry and published her first collection, Outlaws, in April 1921. When her third, most experimental book, Parallax (1925), was criticized as derivative of Eliot, she decided to try her at publishing instead, and in 1928 she founded the avant-garde Hours Press, which most famously published Samuel Beckett’s poem “Whoroscope” (1930).
Natalie Clifford Barney
Barney established a salon at her home that brought together artists of all nationalities, literary movements, and sexual identities; Joan Schenkar, a biographer of Barney’s lover Dorothy Wilde, calls it “the most subversive literary salon that ever existed.”
Maureen Charlton
Irish playwright, poet and broadcaster
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
American poet and essayist
Lucy Aikin
English writer; her most important works are her memoirs of the courts of Elizabeth (1818) James I (1822), and Charles I (1833), and her Memoirs of Addison (1843).
Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy
American author
Elizabeth Ann Linley
English singer
Lydia Maria Child
American writer whose 1825 novel, “The Rebels, a Tale of the Revolution,” was very popular.
Marguerite of Navarre
French politician, religious reformer, literary patron, and author.