Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) was an intellectual of her time, writer, political figure, and perhaps among the first true feminist activists.
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Rebecca West
Rebecca West famously remarked that ‘people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute’.
Muriel Spark
Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist
Flora Park Cave Spurdle
New Zealand historian, journalist and museum worker
Flora Shaw
British journalist and writer
Gabrielle Suchon
1600s French philosopher
Charlotte O’Conor Eccles
Irish journalist and novelist
Elizabeth Griffith
Irish playwright, novelist, and actress
Marija Jurić Zagorka
The first professional political journalist in Croatia and South East Europe, a women’s rights’ advocate, one of the most widely-read Croatian writers ever, a co-founder of the Croatian Journalists Association, a novelist, a playwright, a screenwriter, one of the early pioneers of science fiction, the founder of the first women’s trade union organization in Croatia.
Flora Nwapa
Considered Africa’s first internationally published female novelist