Mina Arndt
Artist whose work is represented in private collections and galleries in New Zealand and in galleries in England, Australia and France.
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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.
Vera Pless
Vera Pless was an American mathematician who specialized in combinatorics and coding theory.
Marjorie Senechal
Marjorie Senechal is an American mathematician who worked on tessellations and quasicrystals. She won the Mathematical Association of America’s Carl B Allendoerfer Award for excellence in expository writing in Mathematics Magazine for her article, Which Tetrahedra Fill Space? Her book American Silk 1830-1930 won the Millia Davenport Publication Award of the Costume Society of America.
Mollie Orshansky
Mollie Orshansky was an American economist and statistician who developed the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, used for measuring household incomes.