Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

female, deceased (1941)
death by drowning, Mrs. Dalloway, suicide by drowning, Women novelist, stephen, English women writer…Women writer, modernist, modernist literature, LGBT writer, Modernistwriter
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth c...
Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

female, deceased (1946)
buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Radcliffe College alumni, LGBT, Stomach cancer death, Jewish person, American…modernist literature, Modernistwriter, writer
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946) was an American writer and is considered to have acted as a catalyst in the development of modern...
Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes

female, deceased (1982)
Bisexual writer, Bisexual, from the United States, American, Modernism, journalist…modernist, writer, Modernistwriter
Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 - June 18, 1982) was an American writer who played an important part in the development of 20th century English...
Dorothy Richardson

Dorothy Richardson

female, deceased (1957)
Stream of consciousness writing, pilgrimage, feminism, Feminist, modernist, stream of consciousness…Modernistwriter
Dorothy Miller Richardson (17 May 1873 - 17 June 1957) was the first writer to publish an English-language novel using what was to become known as...
Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake

male, deceased (1968)
literary nonsense, Parkinson's disease, British in China, Writer-illustrator, War artist, God…fantasy writer, modernist literature, Modernistwriter, writer and illustrator, writer
Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the...
Mina Loy

Mina Loy

female, deceased (1966)
Christian, Women poet, scientist, Playwright, novelist, English women writer…modernist poetry, modernist, Modernistwriter
Mina Loy (December 27, 1882 - September 25, 1966) was an artist, poet, playwright, novelist, Futurist, actor, Christian Scientist, designer of...
Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell

female, deceased (1925)
poet, writer, Lowell family, lesbian, American, From Boston…LGBT writer, Modernistwriter
Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 - May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry...
Rebecca West

Rebecca West

female, deceased (1983)
Women travel writer, British women writer, George Watson's College, The Bookman, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, From London…Travel writer, Modernistwriter, writer
Dame Rebecca West, DBE (December 21, 1892-March 15, 1983), whose real name was Cicely (she later changed it to "Cicily") Isabel Fairfield, was a...
Janet Flanner

Janet Flanner

female, deceased (1978)
From Indianapolis, Indiana, Modernistwriter, LGBT writer, LGBT, from the United States, novelist…writer
Janet Flanner (March 13, 1892 - November 7, 1978) was an American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of "The New Yorker"...