Bethany Veney
Bethany Veney was an enslaved woman who, prior to the American Civil War (1861–1865), lived in the Shenandoah Valley and, in 1889, published The Narrative of Bethany Veney, a Slave Woman.
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Althea Gyles
Irish poet and artist
Roz Chast
One of the leading cartoonists for the New Yorker, since 1978 she has published more than one thousand cartoons in the magazine.
Signe Wilkinson
As her cartoons for Ms. Magazine in the 1980s demonstrate, Signe Wilkinson addressed women’s issues early in her career.
Zoe Caldwell
Australian-born American/U.K. actress celebrated mostly for her stage work on Broadway.
Adriana Trigiani
Adriana Trigiani is an award-winning author, playwright, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker.
Rose O’Neill
Rose Cecil O’Neill was a self-taught bohemian artist, who ascended through a male-dominated field to become a top illustrator and the first to build a merchandising empire from her work, with her invention of the Kewpie doll.
Dr Ruth Westheimer
Famed sex therapist
Grissel Gómez Estrada
Mexican poet
Mary White Ovington
Mary White Ovington (1865–1951), a social worker and freelance writer, was a principal NAACP founder and officer for almost forty years.