Denise Levertov
Denise Levertov remains an influential poet of the mid-twentieth century American group known as the Black Mountain School.
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Djuna Barnes
She acted and wrote plays for Provincetown Theater in Massachusetts; she also became a highly paid journalist. In 1921, she was sent to Paris by McCall’s Magazine to study and write about the expatriate movement. She became friends with famous writers and artists including Mina Loy. She frequently visited Natalie Barney’s salon, to read and discuss literature. It was the environment at Barney’s salon that inspired Barnes to write Ladies Almanack (American Women).
Dorothy Day
Founder of the Catholic Worker, activist and social reformer
Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia
Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia might be the most quoted witness of the Dada movement, yet she is one of the least studied. Her name is most often found in the footnotes of books, next to citations for her detailed comments and stories on the charismatic male leaders of the Dada movement.
Janet Flanner
Janet Flanner, who decried the personal “I,” was a technically skilled writer who found diagramming sentences and Parisian newspapers influential.
Maureen Charlton
Irish playwright, poet and broadcaster
Hannah Cowley
English dramatist
Harriet Chalmers Adams
American explorer, war correspondent and lecturer
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
English novelist and biographer
Helena Faucit
English actress