Bettina Knapp is the author of over 50 books, including Anais Nin, Gertrude Stein, Antonin Artaud, French Fairy Tales: A Jungian Approach, and Women in Myth. She lives in New York City. Both editors have travelled the world, apart and together. Alba Amoia is the author of Twentieth-century Italian Women Writers, No Mothers We!, Albert Camus, Feodor Dostoevsky, and other works. She lives in Rome.

Introduction; Princess Ekaterina (Catherine) Romanovna Vorontsova (1743-1810); Friederike Brun (1765-1835); Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839); Fredrike Bremer (1801-65); Princess Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso (1808-71); Fanny Lewald (1811-89); Belle Marsh Poate (1847-96); Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922); Daisy Bates (1859-1951); Edith Wharton (1862-1937); Gertrude Bell (1868-1926); Alexandra David Neel (1868-1969); Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904); Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) (1885-1962); Freya Stark (1893-1993); Hayashi Fumiko (1903-51); Anais Nin (1903-77); Xie Bingying (born Ming Gang) (1906-2000); Ruth Gruber (1911-); Oriana Fallaci (1930-); Sharon Spencer (1933-2002). Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (1937-).