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- Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
20: ... Pierantonio had four sons and one daughter. But only the daughter, Prudenzia, survived to adulthood &...
34: ... father Orazio departed for [[Genoa]]. It is commonly believed that Artemisia followed her father (and...
42: ...trait of Gonfaloniere"''), today in [[Bologna]] (only known example of her capacity as portrait painte...
46: ...ated to [[Naples]] and stayed there - except for only a brief trip to [[London]] and some other journe...
52: ...t, and it was not possible to refuse. Orazio suddenly died in [[1639]]. Charles I was a fanatical coll... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
- Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
15: ... was [[Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright]]. Unlike Hurston, Wright wrote in explicitly political ... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
- Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
66: ...s. Many academic philosophers criticize Rand not only for her sweeping denouncements of academic philo...
105: ... vol 2, #2. [http://www.skeptic.com/02.2.shermer-unlikely-cult.html] - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
10: ...d in 1014, when records show that her father suddenly returned to Kyoto from his governor's mansion, o...
12: ...ovel'' was written by [[Liza Dalby]], who is the only Westerner to have been trained as a [[geisha]]. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
26: ...[[Ain]], in the [[Rh?Alpes]] region. Referred to only as "Americans" by their neighbors, the Jewish Ge...
71: ..., rooms]]'' (1914) [http://www.bartleby.com/140/ online version]
84: ...lish.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stein-atom-bomb.html online version]
114: ...l. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true." - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
- Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
14: ... pilot [[Jim Mollison]], who had proposed to her only 8 hours after they had met, during a flight of t... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...olshevik r駩me, and her literary rehabilitation only really began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry ar...
10: ...daughter of the historian Dmitri Ilovaisky). Her only full sister, Anastasia, was born in 1894. Quarre...
20: ...her journal: "In the air of the compartment hung only three axe-like words: ''bourgeois, Junkers, leec...
24: ...]], she placed Irina in a state orphanage, mistakenly believing that she would be better fed there. Tr...
26: ...k-up with Rozdevitch in [[1923]] was almost certainly the inspiration for her great '[[The Poem of the... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
- Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
13: ...is probably not among the greatest, but she certainly is in the category of the 20th century great ima...
60: ...ature.com/virginia_woolf/ Read her literature at online-literature.com]
61: .../etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/ Online editions of her works] from [http://etext.libr... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
10: ...ace because officials restricted entrants to men only. Cochran pressed the issue until officials relen...
16: ...n [[1951]] with the French Air Medal. She is the only woman to ever receive the Gold Medal from the [[... - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
4: ... which may have included the [[Museum]] and certainly included the [[Serapeum]] (a temple and "daughte...
22: ...his affair brought not the least opprobrium, not only upon Cyril, but also upon the whole Alexandrian ...
40: ...ttp://www.geocities.com/hckarlso/sletter154.html online version]).
42: ....cosmopolis.com/alexandria/hypatia-bio-john.html online version]). - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
27: ...war, advancing to the rank of full [[professor]] only two months before her death, and died in New Yor... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
15: ... to win or share two Nobel Prizes. She is one of only two people who has been awarded a [[Nobel Prize]...
25: ...nce]] in 1934 was from [[leukemia]], almost certainly due to her massive exposure to radiation in her ... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
25: ...er ineligible. (Posthumous prizes are permitted only if the recipient dies after the award is announc... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
- Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
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