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- Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
7: ...Since her father's style took heavily inspiration from [[Caravaggio]] during that period, her style wa...
18: ... marry [[Pierantonio Stiattesi]], a modest artist from [[Florence]]. Shortly afterwards the couple mov...
24: ...nd the protection of influential people, starting from Granduke Cosimo II de' [[Medici]] and expecial...
26: ...was rising. The success and the fashion radiating from her figure fueled many voices about her private...
28: From this period we remember the [[La Conversione de... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
3: ...t to the [[Montparnasse]] Quarter in [[Paris]], [[France]] to study at [[Marie Vassilieff]]'s Academy...
5: ...ni, painter and Jew". In addition to making close friends with [[Amedeo Modigliani]], [[Pablo Picasso]...
7: ...fter divorcing Kristian, she took up with another free spirit, composer [[E.J Moeran]].
11: ...portrait of a very modest Nina Hamnett painted by Fry.
13: ...s favourite hangout as well as that of her friend from her home town, [[Augustus John]], and later ano... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...[1891]]–[[January 28]], [[1960]]) was an [[African-American]] [[folkloristics|folklorist]] and a...
5: ...d [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard College]] under [[Franz Boas]] at [[Columbia University]].
9: ...ica of the early 20th century. For example ( Amy from the opening of ''[[Zora_Neale_Hurston/Jonah's G...
22: ...dvocate [[William Bradford Huie]]. Her detachment from the wider [[American Civil Rights Movement (189...
44: *[[African-American literature]] - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
8: ...aphy|photographer]] and [[art gallery]] owner [[Alfred Stieglitz]]. Impressed by the drawings, Stiegli... - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: ... (circa [[1365]] - circa [[1430]]) was a [[France|French]] [[poet]] and was one of a number of female ...
9: ...d office as [[astrologer]] to King [[Charles V of France|Charles V]]. At fifteen Christine married ɴi...
13: ...ard II of England|Richard II]] with [[Isabella of France]] (1396), took her elder son, [[Jean du Caste...
15: ..., where she enjoyed the favour of [[Charles VI of France|Charles VI]], the dukes of Berry and Burgundy...
21: ...vertus'' contains details of domestic life in the France of the early 15th century not supplied by mor... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on ot...
19: ...to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
22: ...an aspiring young actor, [[Frank O'Connor (actor)|Frank O'Connor]], who caught her eye. The two were m...
24: ...]] by Scalara Films, [[Rome]], despite resistance from the [[Italy|Italian]] government under [[Benito...
33: ... the infamous [[Red Scare]], Rand testified as a "friendly witness" before the [[House Committee on Un... - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
10: ...s show that her father suddenly returned to Kyoto from his governor's mansion, or between 1025 and 103...
16: ....). ''The Tale of Genji'', published in 6 volumes from 1921-33.
20: * [http://www.crock11.freeserve.co.uk/shikibu.htm Murasaki's Grave] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...t and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
7: ...r, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 followed by two y...
11: In 1902 she moved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity ga...
12: From 1903 to 1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her br...
13: ... her whole life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael's business. - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...is time that they spent together sheltered Amelia from her father and his [[alcoholism]]. Because of E...
8: ... lessons from [[Neta Snook]]. With financial help from some of her family, in 1922 Earhart bought her ...
10: ...gan to include George Putnam. The two developed a friendship during preparation for the Atlantic cross...
14: ...Gold Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]].
16: ...Oakland, California]]. Later that year she soloed from [[Los Angeles]] to [[Mexico City]] and back to ... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: Having graduated with a BA Economics from the [[University of Sheffield]], Johnson went t...
6: From this, she went on to qualify as the first Briti...
8: ...n in [[1930]] when she was the first woman to fly from Britain to Australia. She left [[Croydon]] on [...
10: ... [[July]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]] to [[Japan]] in a [[De Havilland]] ...
12: ...he flight from England to [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]], also in a Puss Moth. She was later to regai... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ally began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her ecce...
8: ...ghly literate woman. She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Poli...
10: ... but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love wi...
12: ...g the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...oloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor. - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
3: ...ters, Edna (who was called "Vincent" by her close friends and family), Norma, and Kathleen then moved ...
9: ... Rubin noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the literary critics for supporting democracy t...
11: Eugene died in 1949 from lung cancer. Edna St. Vincent Millay died about...
17: But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
1: [[Image:VirginiaWoolf.jpeg|frame|right|Virginia Woolf]]
11: ...s of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the ...
13: ... Lily Briscoe; "The Waves" present a group of six friends whose reflections (closer to recitatives tha...
22: ...ayal of Woolf in the movie. The film was adapted from [[Michael Cunningham]]'s Pulitzer Prize-winning...
52: *''Roger Fry: A Biography'' ([[1940]]) - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...nt) and Ira Pittman, a poor mill worker who moved from town to town in search of work. As a child, Bes...
8: After a friend offered her a ride in an airplane, a thrilled...
10: ..., and association with the wealthy elite, she was frequently interviewed by the press and she made up ...
16: ... is the only woman to ever receive the Gold Medal from the [[Federation Aeronautique Internationale]]....
18: ...She was also the first woman to land and take off from an [[aircraft carrier]]. - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
12: ...equence of the cultivation of her mind, she not unfrequently appeared in public in presence of the mag...
18: ... from each other without further inquirey,) range from: a local, spontaneous Christian uprising tolera...
22: ...andrian church. And surely nothing can be farther from the spirit of Christianity than the allowance o...
26: ... punished by the Christians and the Jews expelled from the city] a multitude of believers in God arose... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
1: [[image:Ruth0003.JPG|frame|Ruth Benedict]]
7: ...lumbia University]] in [[1919]], studying under [[Franz Boas]], receiving her [[Doctor of Philosophy|P...
20: ...and formulating the recommendation to President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] that permitting continuation... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...ng even food and sleep to study. After graduating from high school, she suffered a [[nervous breakdown...
7: ...g more [[radioactive]] than the uranium extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanat...
9: ...ative country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
17: ... to matter). France at the time was still reeling from the effects of the [[Dreyfus affair]], so the s...
19: ...n]]. Marie personally provided the tubes, milked from the radium she purified. Promptly after the wa... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
1: ...:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|180px|thumb|right|Rosalind Franklin]]
2: '''Rosalind Elsie Franklin''' ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - [[April 16]], [...
5: ...venings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
8: ...ent body) and women were not entitled to a degree from the University. She passed her finals in [[1941...
9: ...e went to Paris to work. She learned [[X-ray]] diffraction techniques during her three years at the ''... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...aduated [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]] from [[Vassar College]] with a bachelor's degree in ...
5: ...for it. At the end of the war she was discharged from the Navy, but she continued to work on the deve...
9: ... extended her FLOW-MATIC language with some ideas from the IBM equivalent, the COMTRAN. However, it wa...
12: Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander at...
16: ... a [[rear admiral]]. She retired (involuntarily) from the Navy in [[1986]]. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
11: ...ral roots to Sofia's mathematical bent. Some came from her father, accidentally; he had studied calcul...
15: ...ame manner it was explained historically, and the friend was so impressed he implored Sophia's father ...
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