Gertrude Stein
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
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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).
Jane Heap
American editor, publisher, art gallery owner, and teacher
Janet Flanner
Janet Flanner, who decried the personal “I,” was a technically skilled writer who found diagramming sentences and Parisian newspapers influential.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Barney established a salon at her home that brought together artists of all nationalities, literary movements, and sexual identities; Joan Schenkar, a biographer of Barney’s lover Dorothy Wilde, calls it “the most subversive literary salon that ever existed.”
Dr Martha Carey Thomas
American educator, the first woman to receive such a doctorate at a European university, president of Bryn Mawr College.
Elsie de Wolfe
American actress and decorator
Emily Dickinson
American poet
Adelaide Anne Procter
English poet
Isadora Duncan
American dancer and teacher