Flora Shaw
British journalist and writer
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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
Flora Tristan
One of the overlooked (yet instrumental) representatives of French utopian socialism
Valda Grieve
Cornish poet
Unica Zürn
German surrealist artist and writer
Lucie Aubrac
Frenchwoman Lucie Aubrac was a Sorbonne graduate, a schoolteacher and a committed Communist. Brought up in rural poverty between the wars, she was also a lifelong résistante against social and political oppression, including four years’ militant opposition to the Nazi Occupation of France.