Scholar Archives - Page 18 of 22

Julie de Lespinasse

French intellectual and writer

Elizabeth Carter

English writer of various books of prose and verse, chiefly remembered for her admirable translation of Epictetus, the first that appear in English.

Edith Wharton

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist

Loretta Ross is an academic and activist who has dedicated many years to advocating for women’s rights and reproductive justice. Most notably, she is a cofounder of SisterSong and Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, served as a previous Executive Director of the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, and is one of twelve women credited with coining the phrase and framework “reproductive justice.”

Ophelia Settle Egypt

Ophelia Settle Egypt was a medical social worker and women’s rights advocate. She is remembered for many things, including her work to make women’s and reproductive healthcare accessible to the Black communities in Southeast Washington, DC. However, she was also critical in preserving the histories of formerly enslaved African Americans in the early twentieth century, fighting against preventable ailments in Black communities across the country, and for authoring a children’s book.

Dr Betty Shabazz

Educator and civil rights activist Dr Betty Shabazz was the wife, and later widow, of Malcolm X.

Kay Daniels

Kay Daniels was a leader in the history profession, who made a significant contribution to Australian history, especially women’s history, social history and colonial history.

Pauline Fanning

Fanning’s roles at the National Library of Australia included Chief Librarian, Australian Reference (1966-1972); Principal Librarian, Australian Reference (1972-1975) and Director, Australian National Humanities Library (1975-1980).

Agnes Smith Lewis

Proficient in modern Greek, Arabic, and Syriac, she wrote a number of novels and accounts of travel. In 1892, with her twin sister, Mrs. Margaret Dunlop Gibson, she discovered in the library of the convent of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai, the palimpsest containing the Four Gospels in Syriac, representing the oldest text known of any part of the new Testament.

Martha J R Lamb

From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Martha Joanna Reade Lamb, an American historian, born at Plainfield, Mass. She was married to Charles A. Lamb in 1852, and after some years’ residence in the West, removed to New York in 1866 where she became a favorite socially.
Mrs. Lamb was secretary of the first Sanitary Fair and held membership in many learned societies.
From 1883 till her death she edited the Magazine of American History, in which she published many of her own essays. Her chief book, the History of the City of New York (two volumes, 1877 – 1881), was the valuable result of about fifteen years of patient labor and research.
Other volumes worthy of mention are The Homes of America and Wall Street in History.