Abbess Hildegard of Bingen
ABBESS HILDEGARD OF BINGEN was a Benedictine abbess, artist, author, composer, mystic, pharmacist, poet, preacher, and theologian. She is also considered to be the founder of scientific natural...
Ada Lee Bascom Marsden
ADA LEE BASCOM MARSDEN began her artistic career as an actress but later became an acclaimed novelist, playwright and short story writer. She wrote under the pen name of Ada Lee Bascom (her...
Adalet Agaoglu
ADALET AǦAOǦLU was a novelist, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, and playwright. She was hugely influential in 20th century Turkey for her human rights activism and literature that featured...
Adelina Lopes Vieira
ADELINA LOPES VIEIRA was a playwright, poet, translator, and children’s author originally from Lisbon, Portugal. Her family moved to Brazil when she was an infant. She became a primary school...
Adèle Daminois
ADÈLE DAMINOIS was a playwright, novelist, and lecturer originally from northern France. Her father was an advisor to King Louis XVI, giving her a childhood among the French elite. She was known...
Aimée Daniell Beringer
AIMÉE DANIELL BERINGER was American-born but relocated to London with her English parents when she was fifteen. Married to a composer, and mother of five, a magazine article called Beringer “one...
Aimée Stuart
AIMÉE STUART was a Scottish writer and playwright. In 1918, Stuart published her first work, An Airman’s Wife: A True Story of Lovers Separated by War about her marriage to William A. Bond, a...
Akimoto Matsuyo
AKIMOTO MATSUYO (秋元松代) was one of the leading playwrights of post-war Japan, known for her Shingeki plays, classical puppet Bunraku, and Kabuki dramas. At age 34, she became a student at the...