Violet Paget
French-born British art historian and writer who wrote under the pseudonym Vernon Lee
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Arlene Raven
Feminist, pioneer art activist for lesbian artists.
Maggi Hambling
English artist Maggi Hambling earned her formidable reputation on the back of a series of vivid portraits; sublime land and seascapes; and for three highly unconventional (and highly controversial) memorial sculptures.
Anita Rée
German avant-garde painter
María Cristina DeColores Moroles
María Cristina DeColores Moroles (also known by the ceremonial names Sun Hawk and Águila) is best known for founding and maintaining Santuario Arco Iris, an intentional land community in Arkansas designed specifically as a “sacred land space” for women and children, especially marginalized women and children of color.
Esther Lape
Lesbian journalist who was part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s inner circle
Dora Wordsworth
William Wordsworth relied on his sister, wife, and daughter throughout his career. While the latter two (Mary and Dora, respectively) acted as his literary agents, his sister Dorothy was an uncredited editor, as well as transcriber and, after his death, literary executor.
Pauline Oliveros
Composer Pauline Oliveros asked “Why have there been no ‘great’ women composers?” in a 1970 opinion piece for The New York Times.
Lucha Reyes
Mexican singer Lucha Reyes made a name for herself in the male-dominated cancion ranchera style
Kathy Kozachenko
Kathy Kozachenko became the first openly homosexual political candidate in the United States to win an election, in 1974.