 |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Select > Who • What • When • Where • Which • Widgets |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Timeline |
|
 |
|
Women
: 60 of 94 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Who > Activists •
Actors •
Anarchists •
Architects •
Artists •
Astronauts •
Athletes •
Christians •
Communists •
Composers •
Conquerors •
Designers •
Dictators •
Directors •
Engineers •
Entrepreneurs •
Explorers •
Historians •
Humanists •
Inventors •
Musicians •
Muslims •
Painters •
Philanthropists •
Philosophers •
Photographers •
Pilots •
Polymaths •
Revolutionaries •
Royalty •
Sailors •
Scientists •
Settlers •
Soldiers •
Statesmen •
Teachers •
Writers •
Women •
Icons •
People
Next >
1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 < Previous
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning published her first poem in 1820, at the age of fourteen. In 1826, she published her first collection of poems, entitled "An Ess... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Charlotte Brontë, and Sisters
The Brontë sisters were left much to themselves, and they began to write about an imaginary world they had created. This escapist writing, transcribed in tiny script on s... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Victoria, Queen of England
Victoria was the daughter of Edward, the Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg. She was born in Kensington Palace in London on May 24th, 1819.
In 1837 Qu... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale was a legend in her lifetime but the Crimean War years which made her famous were just two out of a life of ninety years.
The Crimean War : In Mar... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Emily Dickinson
American poet Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts where she would remain for almost her entire life. As a result of her reclusive ten... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Madame Blavatsky, Founder of Theosophy
Helena Petrovna Hahn, better known as Helena Blavatsky or Madame Blavatsky was the founder of Theosophy. Helena Blavatsky was a great authority on theosophy, the doctrine... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dowager Cixi, Empress of China
The Dowager Empress Cixi popularly known in China as the Western Empress Dowager, and officially known posthumously as Empress Xiaoqin Xian, was a powerful and charismat... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sisi, Empress of Austria and Hungary
Elizabeth Amalia Eugenia was born in Munich on the 24th December, 1837, the fourth of nine children to Duke Maximilian in Bavaria and his wife Ludovika. She was born not... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bertha von Suttner, Pacifist
Baroness Bertha von Suttner, Gräfin (Countess) Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau was an Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, and the first woman to be a Nob... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Saint Bernadette of Lourdes
Marie-Bernarde Soubirous was a miller's daughter from the town of Lourdes in southern France. From February 11, to July 16, 1858, she reported eighteen apparitions of "a... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Aletta Jacobs, 1st Dutch Female Student
Aletta Jacobs was the first woman in Dutch history to be officially admitted to university. This took place in 1871. As a schoolgirl she had written a letter to Prime Min... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Selma Lagerlöf, The Adventures of Nils
Selma Lagerlöf was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Known internationally for Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sveri... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Beatrix Potter, Author of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter was the author and illustrator of a popular series of children's books that includes The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), The Tailor of Gloucester (1903) and T... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Madame Curie, Discovery of Radioactivity
Marie Sklodowska Curie opened up the science of radioactivity. She is best known as the discoverer of the radioactive elements polonium and radium and as the first person... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gertrude Bell, Uncrowned Queen of Iraq
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was a British writer, traveler, political analyst, and administrator in Arabia. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire. Bell and... |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
Next >
1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 < Previous
|
| |
|
 |
|
•
: double-click any word
|