Ann Petry
Writer best known for her 1946 novel “The Street,” which became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies.
Category Archives: Writer
Continue reading
Dr Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.
Annik Honoré
Belgian journalist and music promoter
Marie le Jars de Gournay
Prominent French writer known for her contributions to literature and her advocacy for women’s education and rights.
Elisabeth of the Palatinate
German philosopher
Mary Ritter Beard
Prominent American historian, author, and women’s suffrage activist.
Mary Sidney
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, was a distinguished Englishwoman known for her poetry and literary support.
Moa Martinson
Prominent figure in Sweden’s proletarian literature
Monica Sjöö
Swedish-born artist and writer who strongly advocated radical anarcho/eco-feminism and played a pivotal role in the early development of the Goddess movement.
Muriel Rukeyser
Renowned Jewish-American writer known for her poetry, essays, biographies, and active political engagement, focusing on themes like equity, women’s rights, social justice, and her Jewish heritage.