Directory of Biography Resources

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People who have made and are making significant contributions to women's movements and women's history. May also include notable women, historical and present.

Subcategories

• Ancient
• Anthony, Susan Brownell
• Arendt, Hannah
• Atwood, Margaret
• Barton, Clara
• Belloc, Bessie Rayner
• Besant, Annie
• Bush, Barbara
• Catherine II the Great
• Clinton, Hillary
• Curie, Marie
• Diana, Princess of Wales
• Dix, Dorothea Lynde
• Earhart, Amelia
• Elizabeth I
• Elizabeth II
• Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
• Goldman, Emma
• Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte
• Hopper, Grace Murray
• Joan of Arc
• Lovelace, Ada
• Medieval
• Nightingale, Florence
• Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy
• Parks, Rosa
• Pocahontas
• Roosevelt, Eleanor
• Sacagawea
• Sanger, Margaret
• Stopes, Marie
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher
• Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
• Tubman, Harriet
• Walker, Mary Edwards

Resources in This Category

• 100 Important Women in History

  http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/100import/
  Brief biographies and pictures. Created as a Girl Scout Gold Award Project. "A site featuring pictures and information about women from different time periods in history and from different races and nationalities as well."

• Amazing Women

  http://www.amybrown.net/women/
  Devoted to examining the brilliance, talent, and passion of some women writers, artists, and performers: George Sand, Djuna Barnes, Frida Kahlo, Tori Amos, and Natalie Portman.

• Elizabeth Anne VanderPutten

  http://www.evanderputten.org/
  Biography of Elizabeth Anne VanderPutten, with family history and remembrances.

• Helen Keller - Biography and Links

  http://deafness.about.com/cs/celebfeatures/a/deafblind.htm
  From About.com. Has links, history, and recommended reading.

• Helen Keller Collection

  http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?sectionid=1
  Large collection of material on and about the life of Helen, including photographs and writings.

• Helen Keller: A Life

  http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/327639.html
  First chapter of the most recent biography of Helen Keller.

• House of Rhetoric

  http://www.jazzbabies.com/home/index.html
  Biographies of famous courtesans who became rhetoricians. From Aspasia of Miletus to present day women in communication.

• Women's Biographies

  http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/
  Distinguished women of past and present.

• Women's Biography Sites

  http://home.earthlink.net/~sharynh/womensbiography.htm
  Access 170 women biography collection sites.

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