Katharine Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. Over her more than 50-year career, she published novels, volumes of poetry and short story collections.
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Katherine Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a major modernist writer who wrote as Katherine Mansfield.
Mercedes de Acosta
Mercedes de Acosta was an American poet, playwright, and novelist who wrote almost a dozen plays, only four of which were produced, and she published a novel and three volumes of poetry. She was professionally unsuccessful but is known for her social connections, including her many lesbian relationships with famous Broadway and Hollywood personalities and many friendships with prominent artists of the period.
Ina Coolbrith
Ina Donna Coolbrith was an American poet, writer and librarian, prominent in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community. Called the “Sweet Singer of California”, she was the first California Poet Laureate, as well as the first poet laureate of any U.S. state.
Urani Rumbo
Urani Rumbo was an Albanian feminist, playwright and teacher who founded several associations promoting Albanian women’s rights, including the Lidhja e Gruas (English: Woman’s Union), one of the country’s first major feminist organizations. In 1919, while teaching at the De Rada school of Gjirokastër, she started an initiative against female illiteracy and the tradition of restricting women to certain parts of the household. In 1920 she opened the Koto Hoxhi school, a five-year primary school for girls from all parts of Gjirokastër and of all religions. There is an elementary school in Gjirokastër named after her. On March 1, 1961, she posthumously recieved the Mësuese e Popullit (Teacher of the People) medal.
Ann Katharine Mitchell
Ann Katharine Mitchell was a British cryptanalyst and psychologist who worked on decrypting messages encoded in the Germans’ Enigma cypher at Bletchley Park during World War II. She later became a marriage guidance counsellor, then worked for the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Social Administration and wrote several academic books about the psychological effects of divorce on children, including Someone to Turn to: Experiences of Help Before Divorce (1981) and Children in the Middle: Living Through Divorce (1985).
Susan Fowler
Susan Joy Fowler is a writer and software engineer known for influencing institutional changes in how Uber and Silicon Valley companies respond to sexual harassment. Fowler worked at two technology startup companies before joining Uber in late 2015. In early 2017, her blog post on sexual harassment at the company went viral and ultimately led to the removal of Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick. She runs a science book club and has written a book on microservices, a style of constructing applications as a collection of loosley coupled services. Fowler served as editor-in-chief of a quarterly publication by the payment processing company Stripe, and as a technology opinion editor at The New York Times.
Pat Parker
Pat Parker was an American poet and activist who drew from her experiences as an African-American lesbian feminist. Her poetry spoke to her difficult childhood growing up in poverty, coping with sexual assault, and the murder of her sister.
Dorothy Osborne
Dorothy Osborne, Lady Temple was a British writer of letters, which have been published several times since their initial 1888 appearance in print. The text of editor Sir Edward Parry’s 1888 edition is available online at http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/osborne/letters/letters.html; while it does containt useful commentary, he did not retain the original spelling and punctuation structure for his transcription, and the “modern English” arguably reduces the tone of Osborne’s prose. G. C. Moore Smith’s (1928) and Kenneth Parker’s (2002) critical editions retain Osborne’s spelling and punctuation.
Marjorie Hillis
Marjorie Hillis wrote popular nonfiction books for women in the 1930s. As a young woman, Hillis went to work for Vogue magazine, eventually becoming assistant editor. In 1936 at age 47, she published the bestseller Live Alone and Like It, an advice book for young women on how to live independently. Rebranded the single woman as powerful, chic and savvy “live-aloners” rather than “spinsters”, the book highlighted the benefits of living alone. “Even going to bed alone can be alluring. There are many times, in fact, when it’s by far the most alluring way to go”, she wrote. In 1937 she published another bestseller, Orchids on Your Budget: Live Smartly on What You Have, in which she offered hypothetical “cases” that encouraged women to match their goals with their financial means. Her mother, Annie Louise Patrick Hillis (1862-1930), was also a published author