Gwen John
Welsh artist Gwen John is known for her paintings and drawings of quiet interiors, often featuring women.
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
Harlem Renaissance poet, critic, journalist, and activist
Dr Kate Millett
American feminist writer, activist, and educator
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.
Alice Walker
American author, poet, and activist whose most famous work, “The Color Purple,” published in 1982, is a seminal novel in American literature, known for its powerful portrayal of African American women’s lives in the early 20th century South.
Jackie “Moms” Mabley
African-American stand-up comic and actor who was active in stage, television and films from the 1910s to 1970s. She was also one of the 20th century’s first openly queer comedians, coming out as a lesbian in 1921.
Bessie Smith
Acknowledged as one of the greatest blues singers of the twentieth century, Bessie Smith reigned as the “Empress of the Blues” throughout most of the 1920s.
Dorothy Wilde
Dorothy Wilde divided her time between London and Paris, where she was, for a time, the toast of salons, celebrated for her wit, intelligence, and physical likeness to her uncle Oscar, as whom she used to dress up.
Mary Shelley
English author of Frankenstein
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).