Suni Paz was one of the first artists to bring the nueva canción tradition—the “new song” music of the 1960s and 1970s—to North American audiences. For more than half of a century, her work as an American songwriter and performer of Latin American folk music has resonated as a cultural force, engaging people of all backgrounds and ages.
1600s Viscountess Falkland , writer and translator
Irish academic and writer
Irish poet and translator
Irish academic, code breaker, musicologist and translator
Russian émigré, historian of Russian medieval art, writer, and educator
American astronomer who became the head of the bureau for the measurements of the plates of the Astro-photographic Catalogue at the Paris Observatory.
Célia Bertin was recruited to help Allied aviators hidden in Occupied Paris because of her ability to speak English. In 1993 she published a study of women during this period, Femmes sous l’Occupation.
After her automobile designer died in 1913, she took over the family business
American activist who worked tirelessly for women’s rights, especially suffrage and the abolition of slavery.