Important Figures in Women's History
For most of history, Virginia Woolf suggested, Anonymous was a woman. And for the most part, even those women whose names we know have not gotten their due. Celebrate some of the many women who have shaped our world with these profiles and biographies.
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Biography of Mary Jackson, NASA's First Female Black Engineer
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Catharine Beecher: Activist for Women in Education
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Biography of Isabella I, Queen of Spain
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Biography of Harriet Tubman: Freed Enslaved People, Fought for the Union
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Biography of Isabella d'Este, Patron of the Renaissance
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Biography of Queen Victoria, Queen of England and Empress of India
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Biography of Angela Davis, Political Activist and Academic
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Biography of Boudicca, British Celtic Warrior Queen
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Biography of Catherine Howard, Queen of England
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Biography of Mary Sibley, Witness in the Salem Witch Trials
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Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Creator of 'Raisin in the Sun'
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Biography of Elizabeth of York, Queen of England
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Helen Pitts Douglass
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Biography of Frida Kahlo, Mexican Surrealist and Folk Art Painter
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Biography of Martha Carrier, Accused Witch
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Biography of Catherine Parr, Sixth Wife of Henry VIII
Biography of Elizabeth Parris, Accuser in the Salem Witch Trials
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Biography of Anne Neville, Wife and Queen of Richard III of England
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Biography of Mary, Queen of Scots
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Biography of Marie Antoinette, Queen Executed in the French Revolution
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Biography of Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England
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Biography of Empress Matilda, Contender for the English Throne
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Biography of Coco Chanel, Famed Fashion Designer and Executive
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Biography of Christina, Unconventional Queen of Sweden
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Biography of Martha Corey, Last Woman Hung in the Salem Witch Trials
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Biography of Lucrezia Borgia, Daughter of Pope Alexander VI
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Marie Curie: Mother of Modern Physics, Researcher of Radioactivity
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Biography of Mary Somerville, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer
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Biography of Angelina Grimké, American Abolitionist
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Biography of Hildegard of Bingen, Mystic, Writer, Composer, Saint
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Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Women's Suffrage Leader
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Biography of Cleopatra, Last Pharaoh of Egypt
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Biography of Sojourner Truth, Abolitionist and Lecturer
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Biography of Sybil Ludington, Possible Female Paul Revere
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Biography of Dorothy Height: Civil Rights Leader
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Biography of Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize Winning Writer
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Biography of Lucy Stone, Abolitionist and Women's Rights Reformer
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Biography of Mary Parker Follett, Management Theorist
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Biography of Elizabeth Blackwell: First Woman Physician in America
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Biography of Barbara Bush: First Lady of the United States
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Biography of Betsy Ross, American Icon
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Biography of Shirley Chisholm, First Black Woman in Congress
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Biography of Betty Friedan, Feminist, Writer, Activist
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Biography of Molly Ivins, Sharp-Tongued Political Commentator
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Biography of Mary Custis Lee, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Wife
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Biography of Mother Jones, Labor Organizer and Agitator
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Biography of Anna Comnena, the First Female Historian
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Biography of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
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Biography of Matilda of Scotland, Wife of Henry I of England
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Biography of Maria W. Stewart, Groundbreaking Lecturer and Activist
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Biography of Calamity Jane, Legendary Figure of the Wild West
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Biography of Carrie Chapman Catt, Suffragette, Activist, Feminist
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Biography of Lydia Maria Child, Activist and Author
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Biography of Alice Paul, Women's Suffrage Activist
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Biography of Edmonia Lewis, American Sculptor
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Biography of Crystal Eastman, Feminist, Civil Libertarian, Pacifist
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Biography of Judith of France
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Biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady
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Biography of Judith Sargent Murray, Early Feminist and Writer
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Biography of Lil Hardin Armstrong, Early Jazz Instrumentalist
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Biography of Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Rights Activist