May Ziadeh (1886-1941) was a Lebanese-Palestinian poet, essayist, translator, intellectual, and feminist who passionately advocated for the emancipation and education of Arab women who helped to break ground for female
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a leading figure in the feminist movement in the U.S. Perkins is best known for her short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, an analysis of suffocating
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Ling Shuhua (1900-1990) was a Chinese modernist writer and painter. She also translated English literature and self-translated her own stories into English. The daughter of a concubine and a high
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Antonia Pozzi (1912-1938) was an Italian poet, photographer and keen mountaineer who enjoyed exploring the terrain of the Dolomites. She was the only child of wealthy, but restrictive parents. Pozzi
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Nataliya Kobrynska ( 1851– 1920) was a Ukrainian writer, socialist feminist, and activist. Due to the fact that women were not allowed to pursue education beyond the elementary level, she
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Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) was born in Odessa, Ukraine, at the time part of the Russian Empire. Her father was a Ukrainian cossack and her mother was part of the Russian
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Fausta Cialente (1898-1994) was born in Cagliari. Her debut novel Natalia was first published in 1930, when it won the Premio dei Dieci. However, Fascist censorship prevented the book from
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Gabriela Mistral (1889 –1957) was the first Latin American author and fifth woman to receive a Nobel Prize for literature. Her poetry was praised by the jury for the way
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Yente Serdatzky (1877-1962) pursued her radical ideals and literary ambitions in turn-of-the-century Warsaw, and fled from persecution to New York City in 1906. Factory girls, tired peddlers, refugee intelligentsia and
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Edith Wharton (1862-1937) is one of America’s the most celebrated writers. She is best known for novels such as The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome,
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Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 – 1941) is considered to be one of Russia’s greatest poets. She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine
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Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932) was an important journalist, activist and author of fiction whose work was banned and largely forgotten during the Franco dictatorship years. As well as being the
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