An Alphabet of Women
[A]
Abigail Adams (1744-1818) wife of John Adams, second President of the United States, women's rights advocate
Ada Overton Walker
Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868) actress
Adele Astaire (1896-1981) dancer, sister of Fred Astaire
Adele Davis cookbook author
Adelina Patti
Agnes DeMille
Aimee Semple McPherson
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Alla Nazimova
Alma Gluck
Althea Gibson
Amanda Berry Smith
Amelia Bloomer
Amelia Earhart
Amy Beach (Composer)
Amy Lowell
Angela Davis
Angelina Grimke
Anna Howard Shaw
Anna Hyers
Anna Katharine Green
Anna May Wong
Anne Bradstreet
Annie Bassant
Annie Edson Taylor (First woman over Niagara in a barrel)
Annie Oakley
Annie Sullivan
Antoinette Perry
Augusta Savage
[B]
Babe Didrickson Zaharias
Barbara Jordan
Bella Abzug
Belle Starr (Outlaw)
Belva Lockwood (First woman lawyer to argue before Supreme Court)
Bessie Smith
Bette Davis
Betty Comden
Betty Friedan
Betty Grable
Betty Shabbaz
Beverly Sills
Billie Holiday
Bonnie (of Bonnie & Clyde)
[C]
Carrie Jacobs Bond
Carrie Nation?
Carson McCullers
Cecilia Beaux
Charlotta Spears Bass (Newspaper editor, Progressive candidate for VP)
Charlotte Cushman
Charlotte E. Ray
Charlotte Forten Grimke
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Cicily Tyson (but she's still alive)
Clara Barton
Clara Bow
Claudette Colbert
Clementine Hunter
Constance Baker Motley
Coretta Scott King (but she's not dead)
Cornelia Otis Skinner (a fun writer: Ma, write a wonderful travel book)
Craig Rice (First mystery writer on cover of time, one of my faves)
[D]
Daisy Bates
Deborah Sampson (Revolutionary War soldier)
Diane Arbus
Doris Day
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Lange
Dorothy Fields
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Thompson
[E]
Edmonia Lewis
Edna Ferber
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Eleanor Roosevelt
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Catlett
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Elizabeth Keckley
Elizabeth Seton
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
Elizabeth Van Lew (Civil War spy)
Ella Baker
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ellen Glasgow
Emily Dickinson
Emma Goldman
Emma Hyers
Emma Lazarus
Etta Place (partner of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid)
Eudora Welty
Eunice Hunton Carter
Evangeline Booth
[F]
Fannie Barrier Williams
Fannie Kemble
Fanny Brice
Fanny Lou Hamer
Flannery O = Connor
Florence Mills
Fran Allison
Frances Benjamin Johnston
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Frances Perkins
[G]
Georgia O = Keefe
Gertrude A Ma @ Rainey
Gertrude Stein
Gilda Radner
Ginger Rogers
Gloria Steinem
Golda Meir
Gracie Allen
Greta Garbo
Gypsy Rose Lee
[H]
Hallie Quinn Brown
Hannah? Arendt (American?)
Harper Lee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Hosmer
Harriet Monroe
Harriet Tubman
Helen Gehaigan[?] Douglas (ruined by Nixon in California)
Helen Keller
Henrietta Szold (founder of Hadassah)
Hetty Green (Eccentric 19 th century millionaire)
[I]
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Ida Tarbell
Imogene Coco
Irene Dunn
Irene Lewisohn (Settlement founder)
Isabel Monk
Isadora Duncan
[J]
Jacqueline Cochran (First woman to break sound barrier)
Jane Addams
Janet Guthrie (Race car driver and physicist)
Janis Joplin
Jean Harlow
Jeanette McDonald
Jeannette Rankin
Joan Crawford
Josephine Baker
Judith Jamison
Judy Holliday
Julia Ward Howe
[K]
Kate Chopin
Kate Smith
Katharine Hepburn
Katherine Angell (EB White's wife)
Katherine Dunham
Katie Jurado (Hispanic actress)
Katy Ferguson
Koko Taylor
[L]
Lana Turner
Laura Towne
Lauren Bacall
Liliuokalani
Lillian Gish
Lillian Hellman
Lillian Russell
Lillian Smith
Lillian Wald (Settlement house founder)
Lily Tomlin
Loie Fuller
Lois Mailou-Jones
Louisa Lane Drew
Louisa May Alcott
Louise Nevelson
Lucille Ball
Lucretia Mott
Lucy Parsons
Lucy Stone
Lucy Terry Prince
Lydia Maria Childs
Lydia Pinkham (Patent medicine entrepreneur)
Lynn Fontaine
[M]
Maggie Lena Walker
Malvina Hoffman
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Fuller
Margaret Mead
Margaret Sanger
Maria Louise Baldwin
Maria Mitchell (Astronomer)
Maria W. Stewart
Marianne Moore
Marilyn Monroe
Marlene Dietrich
Martha Graham
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Cassatt
Mary Chestnut
Mary Fields
Mary Harris A Mother @ Jones
Mary McLeod Bethune
Mercy Otis Warren
Meta Fuller
Molly Spotted Elk (Dancer who fled Nazis)
[N]
Nanette Fabres (actress)
Nannie Helen Burroughs
Nellie Tayloe Ross (First woman gov., first director of U. S. Mint)
Nelly Bly (Elizabeth Cochran)
[P]
Pearl Buck
Pearl White (actor)
Phillipa Duke Schyller
Phillis Wheatley
Phyllis Diller
Pocahontas
[Q]
[R]
Rachel Carson
Rita Hayworth
Rosa Parks
Rose McClendon
Rose Schneiderman
Rosy O'Grady
Ruby Dee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Benedict
[S]
Sacajawea
Sandra Day O = Connor
Sara Teasdale
Sarah Breedlove A Madame C. J. @ Walker
Sarah Grimke (white abolitionist)
Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Parker Remond
Sarah Winnemucca
Shari Lewis
Shirley Chisholm
Sojourner Truth
Sophie Tucker
Stella Adler
Susan B. Anthony
Susan Glaspell
Susie Baker King Taylor
[T]
Tallulah Bankhead
Tennessee Claflin (Victoria Woodhull = s sister, first female seat on NYSE)
Teresa Carreño (opera singer)
Theda Bara
Tina Turner
Tony Stone (major league baseball player)
[U]
Unita Blackwell
[V]
Victoria Woodhull (First women to run for president)
Virne Beatrice A Jackie @ Mitchell (struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig)
[W]
Willa Cather
Wilma Rudolph
[X]
[Y]
Ynes Mexia (botanical explorer)
[Z]
ZaSu Pitts
Zona Gale (novelist, playwright)
Zora Neale Hurston
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