Collective Biographies of Women

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1755

1759

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1794

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18--?

1800

1800s?

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1828

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1830

1830s?

1831

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1834-36

1834-49

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1838

1838-1840

1839

1840

1840-48

1840s

1841

1842

1843

1844

1844-49

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1846

1847

1848

1849

1849-50

1849-55

1850

1850?

1850-59

1851

1852

1852-53

1853

1853-54?

1854

1855

1855-59

1856

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1858

1859

1860

1860-69?

1860s?

1861

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1863

1864

1864?

1865

1865-75?

1866

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1868

1868-72

1869

187?

1870

1870?

1870-1910?

1870-79?

1871

1871-73

1872

1873

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1879

1879-80

1880

1880-1881

1880-1900?

1880-89?

1880-90?

1880-94

1880s?

1881

1882

1882-84

1883

1883?

1883-95

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1886

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1887

1887?

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1890?

1890-99

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1899

1899?

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1900-1929?

1900-1938?

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1930

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1930-51

1931

1931 (v. 1)

1932

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1937 (v. 2)

1938

1938-59?

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adventuresses

African

African American

American colonial

ancient or classical

Asia, East

athletics, sports

Australian, Commonwealth

beauties

Biblical

Canadian

classical, virtues of women

climbers, physical venturers, explorers

Colonists, imperial settlers

Courtly circles, associated with royal sovereigns

criminals

Daughters or wards of the eminent

early modern, pre-1600

eminent models, modern periods

English Civil War

fallen women or prostitutes

French

French Revolution

gender alternative, cross-dressing, lesbian

geographical diversity sample

German

girlhood

good character or deeds

India, South Asia

Irish

Italian

Jewish (not biblical)

Latin America

leaders

learned women

literary heroines

living women, occupational

living women, organizational

living women, regional

lovers or muses of authors or artists

military, heroines of battle

missionaries

mistresses, courtesans

mothers not famous

mothers of great men

multiple biographers, edited collection

mythology

national, one era

national, several periods

Native American

Not=advice

Not=advice miscellany

Not=argument, polemic

Not=art history

Not=article

Not=autobiography

Not=biographical fiction

Not=biographical sketches

Not=book series

Not=catalogue

Not=correspondence

Not=drama

Not=encyclopedia

Not=ethnography or anthropology

Not=ethnography or social science

Not=fewer than three

Not=fiction

Not=historical fiction

Not=historiography

Not=history

Not=history lecture

Not=lecture(s) or sermon(s)

Not=list

Not=literary anthology

Not=literary heroines

Not=literary history

Not=literary miscellany

Not=local archive

Not=local compendium

Not=male

Not=male-female

Not=miscellaneous history

Not=miscellany (varied genres)

Not=national miscellany

Not=other than Anglophone

Not=pamphlet

Not=periodical piece or essay

Not=poetry

Not=portrait collection

Not=reference work

Not=reform miscellany

Not=reform typology

Not=religious advice

Not=religious history

Not=religious miscellany

Not=religious typology

Not=thesis or dissertation

Not=typology

nurses

occupational medical

occupational or career (20th c)

one race

patriots, war effort

performing arts

pioneer

post-1750 achievements

post-1960s list of great women

print era, pre-1830

queens and royalty, Asia

queens and royalty, Britain

queens and royalty, Europe

reformers, social workers

relatives of great women, female

relatives of great women, male

religious models, not saints

saints

science

Scottish

sectarian (religious group)

Sexuality and Gender, homo or cross-gender

Sexuality, hetero

single women, unmarried, spinsters

sisters

Society or High Rank, English

Society or High Rank, French

Society or High Rank, U.S.

Spanish

state or region

travellers

typology

US Civil War

visual arts

Wives of Great Men

world history sample

World War I

World War II

writers

young audience

Person Type: AllAny (show)

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Abbess

Abolitionist

Accountant

Activist

Activist, Civil Rights

Activist, Women's Rights

Adventure, physical feat or survival

Adventuress, self-promoting entrepreneur

African

African American

American, Latin

American, Native

American (US)

Anglo-Saxon

Anonymous author

Anonymous group

Anonymous individual

Anonymous set

Artisan

Artist

Artist, painter

Artist, sculptor

Asian, East

Asian, South

Assassin

Athlete

Australian

Austrian

Author or presenter

Aviator

Baroness

Beauty, celebrated

Biblical, Christian Bible

Biblical, Hebrew Bible

Businesswoman

Canadian

Caribbean

Celebrity for other than performance

celibate, chaste or virginal

Charity

Classical Greek

Classical Roman

Clergy

Colonial, colonist in America

Coquette

Corporate Body

Counterpart, Female

Counterpart, Male

Countess

Criminal, thief

Cross dresser, female impersonator

Cross dresser, male impersonator

Daughter of notable man

Daughter of notable woman

Dentist

Designer

Diarist

Director

Disabled, model or educator of the

divorced or separated

Dowager

Dramatist

Dutch

Editor or publisher

Educational founder, schoolmistress

Educator, professor

Engineer

English

Entrepreneur

Expatriated, exiled person

Fashion leader

Financial crisis or bankruptcy

French

Frontierswoman

Gender nonconforming

German

Heiress

Heroine in war

Heroine of rescue

Historian

Hungarian

Illustrator

Indian (East)

Indigenous

Inventor

Irish

Italian

Jewish

Journalist

Korean

Laborer, industrial

Laborer, rural

Lawyer, Attorney, Judge

Learning, sciences

Legendary

Lesbian

Librarian

Literary character

Lover of notable woman

Lover or mistress of great man, middle or lower rank

Lover or muse of writer or artist

Magistrate

Martyr

Mathematician

Medicine (doctor)

Medieval

Member of committee or club

Member of local society

Midwife

Military

Missionary

Mistress of aristocrat

Mistress of royalty

Model of faith, piety

Model of indigenous, rural virtue

Model of overcoming urban poverty

Model of race

Model single woman

Mother, model of family life

Mother of notable man

Mother of notable woman

Mother Who Has Lost a Child

Mulatto

Murderess

Musician, composer

Muslim

Mythical

Nationalist

Nun

Nurse

Nursing reform

Official or Administrator

Pacifist

Patriot

Patron of literature or art

Performer, actress

Performer, dancer

Performer, Musician

Performer, popular entertainment

Performer, singer

Person of Mixed Race or Ethnicity

Philanthropist

Philosopher

Photographer

Pioneer

Pirate

Politician

Preacher

Printer

Prisoner or captive

Prophet or visionary

Prostitute

queer, sexually ambiguous

Reformer, education

Reformer, political

Reformer, religious

Regent

Religious sect member, founding

Religious sect member, recent or current

Representative of nationality

Representative of region

Representative of state, current

Representative of state history

Role in revolution

Royalty

Ruler

Russian

Saint

Saloniere

Scholar of literatures, classics

Scientist

Scottish

Self-made rich woman

Sempstress, milliner

Servant

sexual agency, bissexual or queer

Sexual agency, transgression (hetero)

sexual agency, transgression (homo)

Shopkeeper or Seller

Single mother

single woman, spinster, unmarried

Sister of eminent woman

Sister of notable man

Slave, bondservant, former slave

Social scientist, theorist

Social worker

Society or High Rank

Soldier

Son of Notable Person

Spanish

Spanish-speaking

Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader

Spy

Suffragette

Swedish

Swiss

Teacher

Temperance worker

Transgender, female to male

Transgender, male to female

Translator

Traveler, travel writer

Typist, clerk, or office worker

Victim of injustice

Victim of rape

widow

Wife, example of domesticity

Wife, Honorable and Dedicated

Wife of notable man

Wife with Great Influence on Husband

Witch

Writer

Writer, Epistolary

Writer for children

Writer, hymns

Writer, Nonfiction

Writer, Novel

Writer, Plays

Writer, Poetry

Writer, Short fiction