Sarah-Patton Boyle was one of Virginia’s most prominent white civil rights activists during the 1950s and 1960s and author of the widely acclaimed autobiography The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition (1962).
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.
Irish poet and artist
One of the leading cartoonists for the New Yorker, since 1978 she has published more than one thousand cartoons in the magazine.
As her cartoons for Ms. Magazine in the 1980s demonstrate, Signe Wilkinson addressed women’s issues early in her career.
Australian-born American/U.K. actress celebrated mostly for her stage work on Broadway.
Adriana Trigiani is an award-winning author, playwright, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker.
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.
Famed sex therapist
Mexican poet