Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography

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Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography

REFERENCE WORK

3rd Edition, by Jennifer S. Uglow, 1998.

People in this reference: 262
Those presently living: 53
Those deceased: 209

White: 230
Black: 20
Asian/Indian: 4
Hispanic: 3
Middle Eastern: 3
Asian: 1
Multiracial: 1

United States: 119
England: 59
France: 22
Italy: 9
Germany: 5
Russia: 5
Netherlands: 4
Ireland: 4
Australia: 3
New Zealand: 3
Sweden: 2
Ancient Egypt: 2
India: 2
Kenya: 2
Spain: 2
Austria: 2
(not specified): 1
Scotland: 1
South Africa: 1
Wales: 1
(others): 13
Bella Abzug
Abigail Adams
Jane Addams
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Anouk Aimée
Anna Akhmatova
Madeleine Albright
Louisa May Alcott
Judith Anderson
Marian Anderson
Julie Andrews
Maya Angelou
Queen Anne
Princess Anne
Susan B. Anthony
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(232 names omitted for brevity)
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Clare Boothe Luce
Ida Lupino
Rosa Luxemburg
Loretta Lynn
Vera Lynn
Wangari Maathai
Catharine MacKinnon
Mary McAleese
Mary McCarthy
Barbara McClintock
Carson McCullers
Madame de Sévigné
Mary Decker Slaney
Madame de Staël
Babe Zaharias

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