Elizabeth Clark
Glasgow-based playwright and poet
Glasgow-based playwright and poet
1800s Irish pioneer feminist and reformer
The cleverest courtesan of Regency London, who captivated, charmed and dazzled her way to the heart of fashionable society, only to shock, anger and terrify her way straight back out again.
Irish Bahá’í pioneer and humanitarian
Irish magazine editor
Irish author, journalist and political campaigner
Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) was an intellectual of her time, writer, political figure, and perhaps among the first true feminist activists.
Rebecca West famously remarked that ‘people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute’.
Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist
New Zealand historian, journalist and museum worker