Josephine Preston Peabody
American poet and dramatist
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Juliette Adam
French writer whose Novelle Revue, founded in 1879, and salon were politically influential
Kate Wiggin
American author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,
Lillie Devereaux Blake
American suffragist and social reformer
Mary Shelley
English author of Frankenstein
Florence Dixie
English explorer and writer
Janet Flanner
Janet Flanner, who decried the personal “I,” was a technically skilled writer who found diagramming sentences and Parisian newspapers influential.
Kathleen Fraser
American poet, writer, and visual artist
Mabel Dodge Luhan
A wealthy American patron of the twentieth-century arts movement, Mabel Evan Dodge Sterne Luhan (Mabel Dodge) hosted modernist salons in Arcetri, Italy (outside of Florence), New York City, and Taos, New Mexico, presiding over her guests as an intellectual provocateur, a financial supporter, organizer, and creative contributor for some of the most radical figures and ideas of the early twentieth century.
Marianne Moore
Her Collected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize (1951), the National Book Award (1952), and the Bollingen Prize (1953).