Writer Archives - Infinite Women

Isabella d’Este

Isabella d’Este (l. 1474-1539), was the leading lady of Renaissance Italy who funded the works of such renowned artists as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

Emma Hannigan

Irish author and cancer awareness advocate

Marie de France

Marie de France (wrote c. 1160-1215 CE) was a multilingual poet and translator, the first known female poet of France, and a highly influential literary voice of 12th-century CE Europe.

Ono no Komachi

Ono no Komachi was a poetess of great renown during Japan’s Heian Period (794-1185 CE)

Louisa Beaufort

1800s Welsh antiquarian, artist, entomologist and writer

Philaenis of Samos

4th century BCE courtesan who became famous for writing a manual on lesbian sexual positions and the proper etiquette for courting a member of the same or opposite sex.

Fatima bint Muhammad

The youngest daughter of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and his first wife Khadija. Taking up after her father, Fatimah became highly spiritual and devoted to Islam.

Freya Stark was an English explorer, writer, and political influencer who chronicled world events, especially in the Near East, throughout the 20th century. Stark both reported on and made the news as her travels, described in her books, made her a celebrity author.