Gabrielle Réjane
French actress, called “the very essence of the Parisienne.”
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Adrienne Lecouvreur
French actress
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
Charlotte Cushman
American actress
Joanna Baillie
No authoress ever enjoyed a larger share than Joanna Baillie of the esteem and affection of her literary contemporaries.
Lillian Russell
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.