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.
Biography of Mary Jackson, NASA's First Female Black Engineer
Catharine Beecher: Activist for Women in Education
Biography of Isabella I, Queen of Spain
Biography of Harriet Tubman: Freed Enslaved People, Fought for the Union
Biography of Isabella d'Este, Patron of the Renaissance
Biography of Queen Victoria, Queen of England and Empress of India
Biography of Angela Davis, Political Activist and Academic
Biography of Boudicca, British Celtic Warrior Queen
Biography of Catherine Howard, Queen of England
Biography of Mary Sibley, Witness in the Salem Witch Trials
Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Creator of 'Raisin in the Sun'
Biography of Elizabeth of York, Queen of England
Helen Pitts Douglass
Biography of Frida Kahlo, Mexican Surrealist and Folk Art Painter
Biography of Martha Carrier, Accused Witch
Biography of Catherine Parr, Sixth Wife of Henry VIII
Biography of Elizabeth Parris, Accuser in the Salem Witch Trials
Biography of Anne Neville, Wife and Queen of Richard III of England
Biography of Mary, Queen of Scots
Biography of Marie Antoinette, Queen Executed in the French Revolution
Biography of Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England
Biography of Empress Matilda, Contender for the English Throne
Biography of Coco Chanel, Famed Fashion Designer and Executive
Biography of Christina, Unconventional Queen of Sweden
Biography of Martha Corey, Last Woman Hung in the Salem Witch Trials
Biography of Lucrezia Borgia, Daughter of Pope Alexander VI
Marie Curie: Mother of Modern Physics, Researcher of Radioactivity
Biography of Mary Somerville, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer
Biography of Angelina Grimké, American Abolitionist
Biography of Hildegard of Bingen, Mystic, Writer, Composer, Saint
Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Women's Suffrage Leader
Biography of Cleopatra, Last Pharaoh of Egypt
Biography of Sojourner Truth, Abolitionist and Lecturer
Biography of Sybil Ludington, Possible Female Paul Revere
Biography of Dorothy Height: Civil Rights Leader
Biography of Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize Winning Writer
Biography of Lucy Stone, Abolitionist and Women's Rights Reformer
Biography of Mary Parker Follett, Management Theorist
Biography of Elizabeth Blackwell: First Woman Physician in America
Biography of Barbara Bush: First Lady of the United States
Biography of Betsy Ross, American Icon
Biography of Shirley Chisholm, First Black Woman in Congress
Biography of Betty Friedan, Feminist, Writer, Activist
Biography of Molly Ivins, Sharp-Tongued Political Commentator
Biography of Mary Custis Lee, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Wife
Biography of Mother Jones, Labor Organizer and Agitator
Biography of Anna Comnena, the First Female Historian
Biography of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
Biography of Matilda of Scotland, Wife of Henry I of England
Biography of Maria W. Stewart, Groundbreaking Lecturer and Activist
Biography of Calamity Jane, Legendary Figure of the Wild West
Biography of Carrie Chapman Catt, Suffragette, Activist, Feminist
Biography of Lydia Maria Child, Activist and Author
Biography of Alice Paul, Women's Suffrage Activist
Biography of Edmonia Lewis, American Sculptor
Biography of Crystal Eastman, Feminist, Civil Libertarian, Pacifist
Biography of Judith of France
Biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady
Biography of Judith Sargent Murray, Early Feminist and Writer
Biography of Lil Hardin Armstrong, Early Jazz Instrumentalist
Biography of Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Rights Activist