Willa Muir
Scottish Renaissance writer
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Annie S Swan
Scottish novelist whose sentimental fiction spoke to the nostalgia of a Scottish diaspora, evoking a way of life and set of values increasingly outmoded in the modern world.
Doris Lessing
Writer, ‘political agitator’ and Communist
Vera McWeeney
Irish sportswoman and sports journalist
Kunzang Choden
Kunzang Choden is the first known Bhutanese woman to write a novel in English, 2005’s The Circle of Karma, which deals with sexism in 1950s Bhutan.
Concepción Arenal
Spanish publicist and social worker
Florine Stettheimer
A pioneer artist from early twentieth-century New York, Florine Stettheimer advanced new possibilities in painting for women artists.
Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago was one of the pioneers of Feminist art in the 1970s, a movement that endeavored to reflect women’s lives, call attention to women’s roles as artists, and alter the conditions under which contemporary art was produced and received.
Mary O’Neill
Irish poet and playwright
Alice Rahon
Alice Rahon is best known as a poet and painter whose work straddled modern, ancient, and pre-historic cultures.