Alice Guy-Blaché

She was a pioneer of the French and American film industries during the silent era and the first woman to have a career as a director, yet her work and career have largely been overlooked throughout history.

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Harriet Quimby

The first American woman to earn a pilot’s license and the first woman to make a solo flight across the English Channel

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Carlotta Monterey O’Neill

Once an actress with abandoned dreams of joining a convent, Carlotta Monterey O’Neill collaborated with her playwright husband Eugene O’Neill on some of his most famous work during their five years in “Tao House” in Danville, California.

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