Eleonora Duse
Italian actress
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Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler
Swedish realistic novelist and dramatist
Gabrielle Réjane
French actress, called “the very essence of the Parisienne.”
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