Dictionary of Suicidal Women Writers

"theatre has no memory, which makes it the most existential of the arts”

Sarah Kane

A

IF IT WERE POSSIBLE AT THIS MOMENT FOR WOMEN TO TAKE THEIR MASOCHISM AND RADICALISE IT, THERE WOULD BE THE BLOODIEST REVOLUTION EVER. THE AMOUNT OF RESENTMENT AND PAIN WITHIN WOMEN IS ENORMOUS.

• Jane Arden

touch

the pain

behind my laughter

• May Ayim

B

• Gertrude Bell
• Victoria Benedictsson
• Karin Boye

C

• Ana Cristina César
• Iris Chang
• Danielle Collobert
• Elise Cowen

D

• Penelope Delta
• Deborah Digges
• Yulia Drunina

E

G

• Helen Palmer Geisel
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman

H

• Iva Hercíková
• Jane Aiken Hodge

I

J

• Ingrid Jonker

K

"theatre has no memory, which makes it the most existential of the arts”

• Sarah Kane
• Sarah Kofman
• Hannelore Kohl

L

• Deborah Laake
• Katherine Lawrence

M

• Charlotte Mew
• Veronica Micle
• Pamela Moore (author)
• Inge Müller

N

• Adela Florence Nicolson

O

P

• Sylvia Plath
• Alejandra_Pizarnik

Q

• Qiu Miaojin

R

• Amelia Rosselli

S

• Annie M. G. Schmidt
• Anne Sexton
• Alfonsina Storni

T

• Sara Teasdale

U

• Dorothy Uhnak

V

W

• Virginia Woolf

Y

Z

• Unica Zürn