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Fanny Janauschek

Celebrated theatre actress from Prague

Sarah Siddons

Actress of the English stage

Elisabeth of Wied

Queen of Romania, known as “Carmen Sylva”, a poet and novelist who fostered the higher education of women in Romania

Adelaide Ristori

Celebrated Italian tragic actress

Dora d’Istria

Romanian author, translator feminist, painter, scholar and mountaineer

Joanna Baillie

No authoress ever enjoyed a larger share than Joanna Baillie of the esteem and affection of her literary contemporaries.

Actor and singer Lillian Russell was a noted beauty of the American stage, and much beloved for her kindliness and charities. During the latter part of her life she became interested in public matters, and in 1921 President Harding appointed her a special investigator to study immigration conditions.