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- Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...e poet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequently visited the house, and were influenced by his artistic and politica...
6: ... the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[1909]].
10: ...he was re-elected to the [[Second Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 192...
12: ...et rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish female [[Cabinet Minister]]. She held t...
14: ...]] cause in the [[Irish Civil War]], and joined [[Fianna Fᩬ]] on its foundation in [[1926]]. She was... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
27: ...ill Clinton]] on [[February 11]], [[1993]] and confirmed on [[March 11]].
34: ...ars later. Despite her Harvard degree, she had difficulty obtaining work as a lawyer because she was a...
36: ... in [[1976]] to become a partner in a private law firm.
38: ...torney in November [[1978]] and was returned to office by the voters four more times. She helped refor... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
27: ...States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is the first [[African American]] [[woman]], the second Afr...
29: ...05]], the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she wa...
31: ...he second African American (after Powell) and the first female to have been appointed to the post.
41: ... led her to call Korbel, "one of the most central figures in my life" [http://www.rider.edu/phanc/Phan... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...ncy four months ahead of the end of her term of office to take up her post in the [[United Nations]].
10: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[3 December]] [[1990]] - [[12 Sept...
17: <tr><td>'''Other candidates:'''</td><td>[[Fianna Fᩬ]]: Brian Lenihan, TD<br>
18: [[Fine Gael]]: Austin Currie, TD</table>
31: ...g fellow politicians that when she introduced the first bill proposing to liberalise the law on contra... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eleanor_Roosevelt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...[[World War II]]. She was a [[First-wave feminism|first-wave]] [[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active sup...
5: ...]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive...
9: ...marriage was blessed with six childeren, of which five survived infancy. However their marriage almost...
11: Eleanor and Franklin were fifth cousins, once removed. They descended from [[C... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...the [[United States Senate| Senate]]. She was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at...
5: ... until [[January 3]], [[1949]]. She served on the House Armed Services committee during [[World War II]]....
11: ...the Maine voters rejected the effort. She was the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate ... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...long with [[Washington]]'s [[Maria Cantwell]] the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator.
5: ...g for much of the Senate race, but rallied in the final weeks of the campaign to unseat Abraham by a n...
9: ...rst was [[Thomas W. Ferry]]. Stabenow is also the first person to have served as a Michigan state legi... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...servative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and the figurehead of a political philosophy that became kno...
33: ...n her direct political work has been within the [[House of Lords]] and as head of the Thatcher Foundation...
36: ...cal politics, serving as an [[Alderman]] (while officially described as '[[Whig|Liberal]] Independent'...
38: .... She was a member of the team that developed the first soft frozen ice cream. - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
1: ...The Valiant Five''' or '''The Famous Five''' were five [[Canada|Canadian]] women who, in [[1927]] aske...
5: ...Murphy]] (the [[British Empire|British Empire's]] first woman judge);
6: ...rryat Parlby]] (farm women's leader, activist and first woman [[Cabinet minister]] in Alberta);
8: ...Kinney]] (one of two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]], and
11: ...of Canada|Governor General]] shall... summon qualified Persons to the Senate; and ... every Person so ... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
9: ...ved politically and changed its name accordingly, first to [[Women's Suffrage Federation]] and then to...
11: ... the CP(BSTI) dissolved itself into the larger, official Communist Party.
15: ...ed from the organisation. Sylvia was an important figure in the communist movement at the time and att...
17: ...'Ethiopia, a Cultural History'' (London: Lalibela House, 1955). Having moved to Addis Ababa in [[1956]], ... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and figure in the [[American Civil Rights Movement (1955...
8: ...being treated as a second-class citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [...
14: ...960s]] and served on the staff of [[United States House of Representatives|U. S. Representative]] [[John ...
25: Parks was not the first African-American to refuse to give up her seat...
29: ...Al Sharpton]] to launch a [[boycott]] against the film. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...] of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
3: ...nd memory, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[S...
13: ... is a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the Fountain House (more properly known as the [[Sheremetev Palace]]... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
8: ...te her secondary education, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 196...
16: ...t success and was later made into a film (''[[The House of the Spirits]]'', 1993) by [[Denmark|Danish]] d...
20: ...d of [[porphyria]] in 1992). In addition to ''The House of Spirits'' and ''Paula'', her books include:
26: *''The Infinite Plan'' (1991)
37: ...[http://www.isabelallende.com/ Isabel Allende's Official Website] - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
2: [[Image:Jane Austen (House in Chawton).jpg|thumb|House of Jane Austen (today it is a museum)]]
3: ...id nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her fiction.
5: ... he turned over to his mother and sisters. (Their house today is open to the public.) Jane never married;...
7: While her first novel, the posthumously published ''[[Northang...
12: ...governess, or living as hanger-on in a relative's household. - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
4: ...gs and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[non-fiction]] and edited work. She has also been associa...
6: ...nes to produce an echo effect. She ranks as a key figure in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of ...
8: ... her tale of a future [[dystopia]] in the science fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made ...
14: She was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and was pro...
45: :''[[Morning in the Burned House]]'' ([[1996]]) - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
3: ...as '''Marguerite Duras''', was a [[writer]] and [[film director]].
5: ...-Garonne]] ''[[d鰡rtment]]'', where her father's house was located.
7: ... was also the screenwriter of the [[1959]] French film ''[[Hiroshima mon amour]]'', which was directed...
9: ...Nouveau roman]] French [[literary movement]]. Her films are also experimental in form, most eschewing ... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
10: ...mained married to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans.
15: ...of uneven teeth and a chin and jawbone ''qui n'en finissent pas''... Now in this vast ugliness reside...
49: She also wrote a considerable amount of fine poetry. - Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
7: ...leave Venice and lost much of her wealth when her house and possessions were looted. On her return in 15... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...ed (novel)|Beloved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave ...
8: ...he [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first African-American woman to receive this prize.
12: ...ys almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing,...
32: *[[Margaret Garner (opera)|Margaret Garner]] (first performed May 2005)
34: ==Non-fiction== - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...], [[1892]] – [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "Amer...
9: ... for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappoint...
11: ...83-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret...
13: She finally divorced Moore in [[March]] [[1920]] and mar...
18: * [[1909]]: discovered by [[David Wark Griffith]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|...
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