Single mother Archives - Page 11 of 20

Peggy Angus

British artist and designer

Flora Sassoon

Businesswoman, philanthropist and Hebrew scholar

Wu Zetian (624-705) was empress consort of China through her marriage to Emperor Gaozong, and later became empress dowager and regent for her sons Zhongzong and Ruizong. She later became the first empress regnant of China.

Artemisia I of Caria

Queen of Halicarnassus (c. 484-460), in what is now southwest Turkey

Tamar of Georgia

Tamar ascended the Georgian throne as sole monarch.

Arwa al-Sulayhi

Arwa al-Sulayhi of Yemen was queen consort from 1067 until his death in 1084, holding increasing power as he retreated from public life due to paralysation. At her husband’s death, she became regent for their son Ali Abd al-Mustansir until his death in 1094, and became queen in her own right.

Lakshmi Bai

Ruler and military leader of Jhansi who fought British imperialism

Lillian Gish

In 1920, Lillian Gish both delivered a landmark performance in D.W. Griffith’s Way Down East and directed her sister Dorothy in Remodelling Her Husband. This was her sole director credit in a career as a screen actor that began with An Unseen Enemy in 1912 and ended with The Whales of August in 1987.