Writer Archives - Page 175 of 255

Cornelia Sorabji

Prominent Indian lawyer, social reformer, and writer.

Ella M S Marble

American physician who had a diverse career as a journalist, educator, and activist. Marble actively supported women’s interests and participated in various movements from an early age.

Emilia Dilke

British author, art historian, feminist, and trade unionist.

Dr Alice Bunker Stockham

Obstetrician and gynecologist from Chicago and the fifth woman to become a doctor in the United States.

Anne Lister

English diarist known for being recognized as “the first modern lesbian.”

Justine Siegemund

Silesian midwife who wrote “The Court Midwife,” the first German medical text authored by a woman, in 1690

Soviet Ukrainian computer and information research scientist who developed one of the world’s first high-level programming languages with indirect addressing, called the Address programming language (APL), in 1955.

Nelly Sachs

Poet and playwright whose life was profoundly shaped by the horrors of World War II and the ascent of the Nazis in Europe, leading her to become a powerful voice representing the sorrows and aspirations of her fellow Jews.