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- Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
33: ... the even less popular [[Community Charge]], more commonly known as the [[poll tax]]. At the same time ...
38: ...nite]] and then [[J. Lyons and Co.|Joseph Lyons & Company]], where she helped develop methods for prese...
43: ...r seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made ...
47: ...ps "not only towards [[Socialism]], but towards [[Communism]]". She won promotion to the [[Shadow Cabin... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
7: Soon after becoming a member of the [[Theosophical Society]] she w...
13: ...societies headquarters at Adyar. Krishna had been living there with his father and brother for a few month...
15: ...it, as it went against her ideals. She tried to accommodate Krishnamurti's views into her life, but nev... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...f France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Living my Life]], and other works, before taking part in...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
18: ...ent domain|expropriation]] advocated by anarchist communists like [[Peter Kropotkin]].) She was charged...
21: ... for several weeks, they were released due to the complete lack of evidence to connect her and the othe...
25: ... the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies."'' - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...[[Marxist]] revolutionary group that became the [[Communist Party of Germany]] and took part in an unsu...
14: ...rg believed that an independent Poland could only come about through revolutions in [[Germany]], [[Aust...
16: ...thuania's social democratic organisation. Despite living in Germany for most of her adult life, Luxemburg ...
29: ... breaking out, the European workers' parties were committed to a general strike. When the crisis in the...
38: ... engagement with the British Navy by German Naval Command, despite the fact it was clear that the war h... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
10: ...the [[Montgomery Bus Boycott]]. The entire black community boycotted public buses for 381 days. Dozens...
25: ...tionist laws, not just those affecting interstate commerce.
37: ...ens of the 20th century. She is also considered a living symbol of courage and determintaion and inspirati...
61: * [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/rparksmug1.html The mug shot of Rosa Par... - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
3: ...eminism]] and [[Paul Gauguin]]'s grandmother. Her complete name was Flore-Celestine -Ther賥-Henriette ...
5: ...er changed drastically from the high standards of living they were accustomed to, prompting them in 1832 t...
13: *[http://www.hope.edu/latinamerican/Tristan.htm Complete Biography] - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: ...e fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinism]].
17: *[http://www.jazzkeyboard.com/jill/akhmatova/index.html Akhmatova website with ... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...thers Frank and Charles went to sea, eventually becoming admirals. In [[1783]], she was educated briefl...
7: ...inue to unearth new perspectives on Austen's keen commentary regarding the predicament of young, unmarr...
12: ...curity other than degrading work as governess, or living as hanger-on in a relative's household.
14: The order in which she began and completed her novels is different from that of their ...
26: *The Watsons (incomplete novel) - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ... Toronto|Victoria College]] in [[Toronto]]. After living in various places in North America and around the...
4: ...science fiction]], [[Southern Ontario Gothic]], [[comedy]], and the [[ghost story]]. Some critics say h...
10: ...ed in the French version of the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]].
12: ...r [[2004]] in [[Toronto]], [[Unotchit]] Inc., her company, demonstrated a "remote book-signing device" ...
14: ...e [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and was promoted to Companion in 1981. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...st known, at least in English, for her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Africa]]''.
37: *http://www.karenblixen.com/ - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
12: ... "Much more genius is needed to make love than to command armies" and "We should take care to lay in a ...
14: ...aintenon]], the lady-in-waiting who would later become the second wife of Louis XIV. Ninon eventually d...
16: ...Dorothy Parker]]'s poem [http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/parker/12603 ''Ninon De Lenclos, On Her Las... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
5: ...th many of the leading members of the avant-garde living there at the time. In Montparnasse she also met h...
7: ...g Kristian, she took up with another free spirit, composer [[E.J Moeran]].
15: ...ing Torso'', a tale of her bohemian life, which become a bestseller in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Uni... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
12: ...lder than O'Keeffe and often in ill health, was uncomfortable with travel. Her trips west gave her the ...
14: ... [[1946]], she took up permanent residence there, living in Taos or [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]] unti... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
19: ...Ayn Rand'', Ayn Rand's first name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had n...
22: ... in [[1934]] and published two novels, ''[[We The Living]]'' ([[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]...
24: ... was approved by Rand and re-released as ''We the Living'' in [[1986]].
26: ...ore finally being accepted by the [[Bobbs-Merrill Company]] publishing house. Despite these initial st...
28: ...[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete statement of Objectivist philosophy in any o... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ..., Amelia spent the first twelve years of her life living with her mother's parents.
18: ...ly left [[Pan Am]], where he helped establish the company's seaplane routes across the Pacific. He hope...
20: ...About 22,000 miles (35,000 km) of the journey was completed. The remaining 7,000 miles (11,000 km) woul...
22: ...C Itasca]] was on station at Howland, assigned to communicate with Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E and g...
24: ... several hours of frustrating attempts at two-way communications, contact was lost, although subsequent... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
10: ... poetic inclination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
14: ...scribed after his death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man'. Voloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon bec...
16: ...khmatova until the 1940s. Describing the Koktebel community, the ''魩gr駧 [[Viktoria Schweitzer]] wro...
20: ...nce. She wrote in her journal: "In the air of the compartment hung only three axe-like words: ''bourgeo...
22: ... March 1917, and ends late in 1920, when the anti-communist White Army was finally defeated. The 'swans... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
6: ...businesswomen in America by the Boston Chamber of Commerce and in [[1953]] and [[1954]] the [[Associate...
8: ...ears obtained her commercial pilot's license. Her companion, Floyd Odlum, whom she married in 1936 afte...
10: ...kie," and maintaining the Cochran name, she began competing in both American and international air race...
14: ...ds more distance and speed records than any pilot living or dead, male or female. In 1948 Cochran joined t...
18: ...Sabre]] jet at an average speed of 652.337 mph, becoming the first woman to break the [[sound barrier]]... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...]]) was the first [[African American]] woman to become an [[airplane]] pilot. She was also the first b...
4: ...-quarter Choctaw Indian. The family earned their living by picking cotton. Everyone worked, including th...
6: ...t being a pilot. Her brother used to tease her by commenting that French women were better than African...
8: ... Coleman meet many influential men from the black community, including Robert S. Abbott, founder and pu... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ...mology|ophthalmologist]] and was in training to become a medical doctor in 1932 when she left that fiel...
6: ...[[Rechlin]] by [[Ernst Udet]]. While under direct command of Karl Franke she soon became a major test p...
8: ...d War 2, and the only woman awarded the Luftwaffe Combined Pilot and Observer Badge with Diamonds. She...
10: ...pped as ''Reichenberg''s, they were never used in combat. (See [[Selbstopfer]])
12: ...opaganda minister [[Joseph Goebbels]], who'd been living there with their parents, but he would not allow ... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
6: ...ts]] legislature to obtain an official inspection commission.
8: ... to take an interest in the mentally ill is more complex and more interesting than this legend. Surviv...
10: ...road to recover. In [[England]], she spent a year living on the estate of the Rathbone family, eminent [[Q...
16: ... had died. This led to the appointment of a state commission to investigate the condition of all the in...
20: ...etermination to do things her way, this was not a completely successful venture. After the War, althoug...
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