Sheila Kuehl
Kuehl was elected to the California State Assembly in 1994, becoming the first openly gay person elected to the California legislature. While running for office Kuehl found she was able to offset some negative stereotypes people had about lesbians thanks to their familiarity with her role as Zelda. She told an interviewer "When people know gay people personally, they tend to feel differently about the whole community. And all of a sudden, here's a person that they knew very well that they found out was lesbian."
Kathleen Coyle
Coyle returned to Ireland in 1911, and whilst in Ireland she became involved in the socialist movement. Under the name Selma Sigerson, Coyle co-wrote a pamphlet entitled "Sinn Fein and socialism" with James Connolly that was published in 1919. It was through this movement she met her husband, Charles O'Meagher. They were married in 1915, and had a son, Kestrel, and a daughter, Michele. They separated in 1919, when Coyle returned to London to live with her mother. At this time Coyle became active in the suffragist movement. Wanting to focus on developing a writing career, she placed her children in foster care, moved out from her mother's house to a rented room. She published her first book, "Piccadilly", in 1923. In 1923, she moved to Ostend with her children, later moving to Antwerp, then to Paris in 1926. It was in Paris she became an acquaintance of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle. From 1926 onwards, Coyle produced a steady number of novels, which she stated were written to earn money rather than for literary merit. "A Flock of Birds" (1930) was entered by Jonathan Cape for a literary prize, which came second to E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India". Other works by her that have been lauded by critics are "Liv" (1928), and her autobiography, "The Magical Realm" (1943).
Despite producing a large amount of writing, Coyle often struggled with money. In total, she published 19 novels and two autobiographies. She left Europe to move to the United States in 1937, with financial help from American friends. Coyle lived in New Hampshire with her daughter Michele, an artist, where she joined an artists' group the MacDowell Colony. During World War II Coyle wrote short stories for women's magazines. Coyle later moved to Princeton, where she was involved in research on Joan of Arc and St. Paul, and also reviewed books for the press. In 1951, she moved to Philadelphia, and she died there on 25 March 1952. Coyle's work has enjoyed new interest in the late 20th century.