Mariana Van Rensselaer
American author, elected as honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, and in 1910 received the degree of Litt. D. from Columbia University.
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Sarah Flower Adams
English poet and the author of several beautiful hymns
Marie Bashkirtseff
Russian artist and writer
Luisa Tetrazzini
Italian prima donna
Susanna Wesley
“She was the mother of Methodism in a religious and moral sense; for, her courage, her submissiveness to authority, the high tone of her mind, its independence and self-control, the warmth of her devotional feelings, and the practical direction given to them, came up and were visibly repeated in the character and conduct of her son.”
Lydia Sigourney
Prolific writer on many subjects, producing about fifty volumes of prose, poems and selections, many of which attained wide popularity.
Margaret Fuller
American critic and essayist
Ellen Glasgow
American novelist, born at Richmond, Va.
Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet
Emily Dickinson
American poet