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Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the coordinate college for Harvard University. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges. Radcliffe College conferred joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas beginning in 1963 and a formal merger agreement with...
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Linda Pastan
Linda Pastan is an American poet of Jewish background. She was born in New York on May 27, 1932. Today, she lives in Potomac, Maryland with her husband Ira Pastan, an accomplished physician and researcher.
She is known for writing short poems that...
Emily Vermeule
Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule (New York City August 11, 1928 – Cambridge, Massachusetts February 6, 2001) was an American classical scholar and archaeologist.
She was an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr (1950), and earned a master's degree from...
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (pronounced /ˈɜrsələ ˈkroʊbər ləˈɡwɪn/; born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in the genres of fantasy and science fiction....
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- 1951
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Marjorie Grene
Marjorie Glicksman Grene (December 13, 1910 – March 16, 2009) was an American philosopher.
She wrote both on existentialism and the philosophy of science, especially the philosophy of biology. From 1988 until her death she was Honorary University...
Laura Nader
Laura Nader (born 1930) is an American anthropologist.
She has been a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley since 1960. (She was the first woman to receive a tenure-track position in the department.) She received a BA...
Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan (born November 28, 1936) is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work with and against Lawrence Kohlberg on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain subject-object problems in ethics. She...
Elizabeth Bailey
Elizabeth E. Bailey (born 1938) has been Director of Altria since 1989, and is John C. Hower Professor of Business and Public Policy, at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Bailey joined The Wharton School in July 1991, having...
Lani Guinier
Lani Guinier (pronounced /ˈlɑːni ɡwɪˈnɪər/, born April 19, 1950) is an American lawyer, scholar and civil rights activist. The first African-American woman tenured professor at Harvard Law School, Guinier's work includes professional...
Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman (April 11 1941, Newton MA) is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist.
Goodman worked as a researcher and reporter for Newsweek magazine between 1963 and 1965, and has worked as an associate editor at the...
Lally Weymouth
Elizabeth Morris "Lally" Graham Weymouth (born 3 July 1943) is an American journalist who is the senior editor of Newsweek magazine.
She is an heir to the Washington Post media fortune, whose properties include Newsweek.
She is the only daughter of...
Mary Sears
Mary Sears (18 July 1905 – 1997) was a Commander in the United States Naval Reserve and a leading oceanographer. Throughout her career, she was associated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).
Few members of the staff have been more...
Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin (born 7 June 1925) is an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981-1982.
Born in Philadelphia, Kumin, the daughter of Jewish parents, attended Catholic kindergarten...
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- 1946
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Charlotte Wilder
Charlotte Wilder (1898-1980) was an American poet and the eldest sister of author Thornton Wilder, Janet Wilder Dakin, and Amos Wilder.
She grew up in Berkeley, California and graduated from Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California). She received...
Marina von Neumann Whitman
Marina von Neumann Whitman (born March 6, 1935) is Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business as well as The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. She is also a member of the...
Mary Parker Follett
Mary Parker Follett (3 September 1868 – 18 December 1933) was an American social worker, management consultant and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior. She also authored a number of books and numerous essays,...
Anne Garrels
Anne Garrels (born July 2, 1951) is a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio in the United States. She was one of the few Western journalists who remained in Baghdad and reported live during the 2003 Iraq War. Shortly after her return from...
Virginia Hamilton Adair
Virginia Hamilton Adair (February 28, 1913, New York City - September 16, 2004, Claremont, California) was an American poet who became famous later in life with the 1996 publication of Ants on the Melon.
Mary Virginia Hamilton was born in the Bronx...
Alice Rivlin
Alice Mitchell Rivlin (born March 4, 1931, in Philadelphia) is an economist, a former U.S. Cabinet official, and an expert on the budget. She was also previously the Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and the 1st Director of the Congressional...
Elizabeth Holloway Marston
Elizabeth "Sadie" Holloway Marston (February 20, 1893 – March 27, 1993) was an American psychologist who was a career woman at a time when it was difficult for women to be so. She was involved in the creation of the comic book character, Wonder...
Maurine Dallas Watkins
Maurine Dallas Watkins (July 27, 1896 - August 10, 1969) was an American journalist and playwright.
She was born in Louisville, Kentucky and attended Crawfordsville High School, followed by five colleges (including Hamilton College, Transylvania...
Elizabeth Brewster
Elizabeth Winifred Brewster, CM (born 26 August 1922) is a Canadian poet and academic.
Born in Chipman, New Brunswick, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of New Brunswick, a Master of Arts degree from Radcliffe College, a...
Daisy Newman
Daisy Newman (1904 - 1994) was born in Britain to American parents. She wrote novels and non-fiction about Quakers (the Society of Friends) in America. Ms. Newman was educated at Radcliffe College, Barnard College, and Oxford University. She married...
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter, born in Burbank, California. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and...
Anne McCaffrey
Anne Inez McCaffrey (born 1 April 1926) is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Born in the United States, she is long-term resident of Ireland.
Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge,...
Mary Lefkowitz
Mary R. Lefkowitz (Lady Lloyd-Jones) (born 1935) is a Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, United States.
She has published on subjects including mythology, women in antiquity, Pindar, and fiction in ancient...
Rachel Hadas
Rachel Hadas (born November 8, 1948) is an American poet, teacher, essayist, and translator.
The daughter of noted Columbia University classicist Moses Hadas and Latin teacher Elizabeth Chamberlayne Hadas, Hadas grew up in Morningside Heights, New...
Jennifer Gordon
Jennifer Gordon founded the Workplace Project in 1992, a non-profit worker center in Hempstead, New York, which organizes immigrant workers, mostly from Central and South America. The Workplace Project lobbied for and won a strong wage enforcement...
Josephine Hull
Josephine Hull (3 January 1886 – 12 March 1957) was an American actress. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film.
Hull was born Josephine Sherwood in Newtonville, Massachusetts. She attended...
Elizabeth Hubbard
Elizabeth Hubbard (born December 22, 1933) is an American film, soap opera, stage and television actress.
Hubbard was born in New York City. She attended Radcliffe College, and graduated summa cum laude. She pursued her theatrical education at the...
Philinda Rand
Philinda Parsons Rand Anglemyer (1876–1972) was an American English-language teacher in the Philippines. She was among the pioneering five-hundred Thomasites who landed on the shores of the Philippines in August 1901 on board the U.S. sea vessel,...
Caroline F. Ware
Caroline Farrar Ware (1899-1990) was a professor of history at American University and a New Deal activist.
Ware received her A.B. from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie in 1920, her A.M. from Radcliffe College, a women's college associated with...
Diane B. Snelling
Diane B. Snelling (born March 18, 1952) is an American politician from Vermont who serves as a Republican member of the Vermont State Senate, representing the Chittenden County.
Diane Snelling was first appointed to the Vermont State Senate in...
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (Mrs. Fordyce Coburn) (September 22, 1872–June 4, 1958), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was a nationally recognized American author. She was a frequent contributor to The Ladies' Home Journal.
Abbott is the daughter of...
Natalie Zemon Davis
Natalie Zemon Davis (born November 8, 1928) is a Canadian and American historian of early modern period. She is currently a professor of history at the University of Toronto. Her work originally focused on France, but has since broadened to include...
Jean Valentine
Jean Valentine (born 1934) is an American poet, and currently the New York State Poet (2008 - 2010).
She was born in Chicago, received bachelor of arts and a master of arts degrees at Radcliffe College, and has lived most of her life in New York...
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, broke through the...
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- 1904
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- 1900
Nancy Johnson
Nancy Lee Johnson (born January 5, 1935, Chicago, Illinois) is an American politician.
Johnson was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2007, representing first the 6th district and later the 5th District of...
Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller
Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller (1876–1952) was an American socialite, club woman and concert singer. She is often mentioned in the same context as Florence Foster Jenkins: both are apt to be criticised as people who were publicly tolerated and even...
Rona Jaffe
Rona Jaffe (June 12, 1931, Brooklyn, New York – December 30, 2005, London, UK) was an American novelist.
Born in Brooklyn, Ms. Jaffe grew up in affluent circumstances on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the only child of Samuel Jaffe, an elementary...
Olive Hazlett
Olive Clio Hazlett (October 27, 1890 - March 8, 1974) was an American mathematician who spent most of her career working for the University of Illinois. She mainly researched algebra, and wrote seventeen research papers on subjects such as nilpotent...
Natalie Wexler
Natalie Wexler is a legal scholar and novelist. She is a graduate of the Bryn Mawr School, Radcliffe College (A.B. 1976, magna cum laude), the University of Sussex (M.A. 1977), and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D. 1983), where she...
Francine Prose
Francine Prose (born April 1, 1947, Brooklyn, New York) is an American writer. Since March 2007 she has been the president of PEN American Center. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968 and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991.
She sat on...
Elizabeth Holtzman
Elizabeth Holtzman (born August 11, 1941) is an American lawyer and former Democratic politician, pioneer woman officeholder, four term U.S. Representative (youngest woman), two term District Attorney of Kings County (Brooklyn) (first woman), and...
Helen Sawyer Hogg
Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg, CC (August 1, 1905 – January 28, 1993) was a prolific astronomer noted for her research into globular clusters. She is best remembered for her astronomy column, which ran from 1951 until 1981 in the Toronto Star, and her...
Ellen Schrecker
Ellen Wolf Schrecker, Ph.D. (born August 4, 1938) is a professor of American history at Yeshiva University. She is currently on leave, having received the Frederick Ewen Academic Freedom Fellowship at the Tamiment Library at NYU. Schrecker is...
Hannah Weiner
Hannah Adelle Weiner (née Finegold) (4 November 1928 — 11 September 1997) was an American poet who is often grouped with the Language poets because of the prominent place she assumed in the poetics of that group.
Weiner was born in Providence, Rhode...
Thérèse Bonney
Thérèse Bonney (born Mabel Bonney, Syracuse, New York, July 15, 1894 - Paris, France, January 15, 1978) was an American photographer and publicist.
Bonney was best known for her images taken during World War II on the Russian-Finnish front. Her war...
Amy Gutmann
Amy Gutmann (born November 19, 1949) is the 8th President of the University of Pennsylvania and the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Communications, and Philosophy. She is a political theorist who taught at...
Tenley Albright
Tenley Emma Albright, M.D. (born July 18, 1935 in Newton Centre, Massachusetts) became the first American female skater to win a figure skating Olympic gold medal, at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. She also won the U.S....
Julie Vargas
Julie S. Vargas (born 1938 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an author and educator. She is the daughter of B.F. Skinner.
Dr. Vargas received a bachelors in music from Radcliffe College, a masters in music education from Columbia University, and a Ph.D....
Gail Lee Bernstein
Gail Lee Bernstein (born 1939) is a Professor Emerita of History at the University of Arizona. She specializes in the history of Japanese women, and is considered one of the pioneers in this field. Bernstein retired from full-time teaching in 2007....
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."
Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland on May 16, 1929. Her...
Susanne Langer
Susanne Katherina Langer (née Knauth) (1895-1985) was an American philosopher of art, a follower of Ernst Cassirer. She is best known for her 1942 book Philosophy in a New Key.
She was born in Manhattan. She studied at Radcliffe College, and...
Fannie Fern Andrews
Fannie Fern Andrews (Phillips) (1867–1950) was an American lecturer, teacher, social worker, and writer.
Andrews was born at Margaretsville (N. S.), and educated at the Salem (Mass.) Normal School. She taught for six years before receiving a degree...
Peggy Dulany
Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (born 1947) (Peggy Dulany) is a philanthropist and the fourth child of David Rockefeller. She is a fourth-generation member ("the cousins") of the Rockefeller family. Her siblings are Abby, Richard, Neva Rockefeller Goodwin,...
Mary E. Switzer
Mary Elizabeth Switzer (February 16, 1900 – October 16, 1971) was an American public administrator and social reformer. She notably shaped the 1954 Vocational Rehabilitation Act, which provided a great expansion of vocational rehabilitation service...
Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto (Sindhi: بينظير ڀٽو; Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو, pronounced [beːnəˈziːr ˈbʱʊʈːoː]; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was...
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- 1973
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- 1969
Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis McAlpin Stewart Schlafly (b. August 15, 1924, in St. Louis, Missouri; pronounced /ˈfɪlɨs ˈʃlæfli/) is an American conservative political activist and constitutional attorney known for her opposition to feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment...
Mary White Ovington
Mary White Ovington (April 11, 1865 – July 15, 1951) was a suffragette, socialist, unitarian, journalist, and co-founder of the NAACP.
Mary White Ovington was born April 11, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents, members of the Unitarian Church...
Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American self-trained historian and author. She became best known for her top-selling book The Guns of August, a history of the prelude and first month of World War I which won...
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- 1933
