Peggy Guggenheim
After fleeing Nazi France in 1942, she opened the gallery Art of This Century in New York City. In 1943, Guggenheim held the first collection of the soon to be star of her gallery, Jackson Pollock.
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Denise Levertov
Denise Levertov remains an influential poet of the mid-twentieth century American group known as the Black Mountain School.
Mina Loy
She consorted with the major 20th-century avant-garde movements—Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, and wrote poems, plays, and experimental prose; created drawings, paintings, sculptures, and assemblages; designed lampshades, toys, Christmas lights, cleaning tools, and corselets.
Mina Arndt
Artist whose work is represented in private collections and galleries in New Zealand and in galleries in England, Australia and France.
Rachel Félix
Renowned French tragic actress
Annie Nathan Meyer
American author and promoter of the higher education of women
Adah Isaacs Menken
Actress Adah Isaacs Menken was noted as a woman of extraordinary beauty, culture, and brilliancy. She was famous for her marriages and divorces, and a volume of poetry by her was published as Infelicia (1868).
Giuditta Pasta
Italian singer
Lina Morgenstern
German social reformer. At eighteen she had organized a league to aid poor school children, and after her marriage to Dr. Morgenstern she founded the Berlin Kindergarten Association, of which she was president from 1860 – 1866.
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt’s position as the first actress of her day was undisputed, and she tread the boards for more than 50 years.