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- Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
1: ...sh_Stamp_Countess_Markievicz.jpg|right|thumb|Countess Markiewicz]]
4: ...e poet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequently visited the house, and were influenced by his artistic and politica...
8: ...e imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ...he was re-elected to the [[Second Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 192...
12: ...r]] from April 1919 to Jan 1922, in the [[Ministries of the First Dᩬ|Second Ministry]] and the [[Thi... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
12: |'''Predecessor'''
15: |'''Successor'''
25: |[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]
27: ...s nominated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on [[February 11]], [[199...
30: ...mother, raised her children and then became an investigative reporter for the Miami News. Janet Reno h... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
12: |'''Predecessor'''
21: |'''[[Profession]]'''
22: |[[Professor|University Professor]]
25: |[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
27: ...inistration of [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is the first [[Afr... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...conservative political office. She resigned the presidency four months ahead of the end of her term of...
7: <caption><font size="+1">'''MARY ROBINSON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
12: <tr><td>'''Predecessor:'''</td><td>[[Patrick Hillery]]</td></tr>
13: <tr><td>'''Successor:'''</td><td>[[Mary McAleese]]</td></tr>
15: <tr><td>'''[[Profession]]:'''</td><td>[[Barrister]], former Senator</... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eleanor_Roosevelt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...he [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[First-wave f...
5: ...Rights|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First L...
9: ...s hand to her husband to be. Their marriage was blessed with six childeren, of which five survived inf...
11: ...scended from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
1: [[image:MargaretChaseSmith.jpg|right|Margaret Chase Smith]]
3: ...tion at her party's convention (1964 [[United States Republican Party|Republican]]).
5: ...s instrumental in resolving conflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military.
7: ...s defeated for reelection in 1972 by [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[William Dodd Hathaw...
9: ...ived the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[198... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...(whom [[George W. Bush]] later named [[United States Secretary of Energy|Secretary of Energy]]) in [[2...
5: ... in [[2000]], but was elected to the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]]. Stabenow was considered the...
7: ...Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry]], and the [[U.S. Senate Special Committee on ...
9: ... of the [[Seventeenth amendment to the United States Constitution]] in [[1913]], U.S. Senators were se...
11: ... D-Nev., to set the Democrats' agenda and priorities. Reid was elected to replace Minority Leader [[To... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
9: |'''PM Predecessor:'''
10: |[[James Callaghan]]
12: |'''PM Succesor:'''
27: ... of [[privatisation]] of government-owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed th...
29: ... "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
1: ...d the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] to answer the question, "Are women persons?" The case came to be kn...
8: ...Kinney]] (one of two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]], and
9: ...women and founder of the [[Victorian Order of Nurses]]).
11: Specifically the question was whether Section 24 of the [[British North...
13: ...her reasons, until 1970 the Senate approved divorces. - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: '''(Estelle) Sylvia Pankhurst''' ([[May 5]], [[1882]] - ...
5: She was born in [[Manchester|Manchester, England]], a daughter of [[Dr. Richard Pankhu...
7: ...ne. But in contrast to them she retained her interest in the labour movement.
9: ... set up the [[East London Federation of Suffragettes]] (ELFS), which over the years evolved politicall...
13: ...retain it as a personal organ she revolted. As a result she was expelled from the CPGB and moved to fo... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...arrested.jpeg|thumb|right|330px|Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to make room ...
2: ...ey''') is a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and figure in the [[American Civil Rights Move...
4: ...er; most of her adult life she worked as a seamstress.
8: ...second-class citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [[disorderly conduct...
10: ...as lifted. This event helped spark many other protests against [[segregation]]. In helping in this boy... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: ...ry, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinis...
5: ...Bolshoy Fontan]] near [[Odessa]]. Her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separa...
9: ...]], with several poems written in the form of correspondence between the two.
11: ...y Gumilyov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatova was effectively...
13: ... is a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the Fountain House (more properly known as the [[Sheremetev Palace]]... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: ...lion copies and translated in 27 different languages.
6: ...llende, the cousin of [[Salvador Allende]], the President of [[Chile]] from [[1970]] to [[1973|73]]. ...
8: ...hile in Bolivia, Allende attended an [[United States|American]] private school, and while in Lebanon a...
12: ...as y Lauchones," as well as a collection of articles, ''Civilice a su troglodita''. She also worked i...
16: ...t success and was later made into a film (''[[The House of the Spirits]]'', 1993) by [[Denmark|Danish]] d... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
2: [[Image:Jane Austen (House in Chawton).jpg|thumb|House of Jane Austen (today it is a museum)]]
3: ...ovelist]] whose work is considered part of the [[Western canon]]. She stands as a model of the writer ...
5: ...ere two months later and was buried in the [[Winchester_Cathedral|cathedral]].
7: ... modern critics continue to unearth new perspectives on Austen's keen commentary regarding the predica...
10: :''That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements of feelings and character... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in [[1976]].
4: ...sm]]. She also has a reputation for her deep interest in [[Canada]] and [[Canadian literature|Canadian...
6: ...try]], especially as one of [[Toronto]]'s new voices in the [[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]...
10: ...h version of the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]].
12: ...mote book-signing device" at an invitation-only presentation in Toronto. The device, also called the ... - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
5: ...-Garonne]] ''[[d鰡rtment]]'', where her father's house was located.
7: ...ima mon amour]]'', which was directed by [[Alain Resnais]].
9: ...es whose relation to what is said may be more-or-less tangential. - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
5: ...attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]].
8: ...ime that she began to live with [[George Henry Lewes]] in an extramarital cohabitation.
10: ...mained married to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans.
12: ...married a friend, [[John Cross]], an [[United States|American]] banker, who was 20 years her junior. T...
14: Friend and author [[Henry James]] once wrote of her: - Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
1: ...''' ([[1546]]-[[1591]]) was a [[poet]] and [[courtesan]] of Venice during the sixteenth century.
3: ...rance. She was listed as one of the foremost courtesans of Venice in the "catalog," ''Il Catalogo di t...
5: .... She also founded and funded a charity for courtesans and their children.
7: ... is largely obscure, though surviving records suggest reasonable prosperity.
9: The life and times of Veronica Franco were made into the 1998 movie,... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...rize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave who found freedom, but killed her infant ...
10: ...the [[Robert F. Goheen]] Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton University]].
12: ...ys almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing,...
15: *''[[The Bluest Eye]]'' (1970)
25: ==Short Stories== - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
9: ... reflected her own age, rather than teenage heroines.
11: ... star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driving and ...
13: ...plagued with marital problems. Her stressful business schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with...
15: ...tress's life. Before he died, he sent Pickford a message saying simply, "By the clock." Upon hearing o...
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