Mitsu Yashima
Japanese-American artist, children’s book author, and civic activist who worked with the OSS (predecessor to the CIA)
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Georgiana Chatterton
1800s Irish writer
Bonnie Parker
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Champion Barrow were shot to death by officers in an ambush near Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana on May 23, 1934, after one of the most extensive manhunts the nation had seen up to that time.
Ada Florence Kinton
Canadian artist, teacher, Salvation Army officer, and newspaper edito
Agnes Mongan
First woman museum curator at Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum
Henrietta Battier
Irish poet and satirist
Dr Eliza Lo Chin
Eliza Lo Chin, M.D., has drawn inspiration from her female colleagues who strive to combine family responsibilities with a career in medicine. She has collected their experiences in her book, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections From Women in Medicine, published in 2002. For her continuing work on women’s issues in medicine, Dr. Chin was nominated for the New York branch of the American Medical Women’s Association’s Outstanding Woman Physician Award for the year 2000.
Ada Limón
24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress
Anna Brownell Jameson
Irish-English writer, feminist, and art historian
Helena Blackwood
1800s baroness of Dufferin and Clandeboye, countess of Gifford, author and songwriter