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Lady Mary Wroth (née Sidney; 18 October 1587 [1] – 1651/3) was an English noblewoman and a poet of the English Renaissance. A member of a distinguished literary family, Lady Wroth was among the first female English writers to have achieved an enduring reputation.
Anne Bethel Spencer (born Bannister; February 6, 1882 – July 27, 1975) was an American poet, teacher, civil rights activist, librarian, and gardener.She was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, despite living in Virginia for most of her life, far from the center of the movement in New York.
Ann Mary Hamilton (fl. 1806–1813) Elizabeth Hamilton (1756 or 1758 – 1816) Mary Hamilton (née Leslie; 1736–1821) [9] Mary Ann Hanway (fl. 1776–1814) Martha Harley (later Hugill; fl. 1786–1797) Jane Harvey (1771–1848) Ann Julia Hatton (née Kemble; 1764–1838) Laetitia Matilda Hawkins (1759–1835) Mary Hays (1759–1843) [9] Eliza ...
Ann Preston, 1813-1872. American physician who worked to educate women about their bodies. Mary Edwards Walker, 1832-1919. Surgeon, abolitionist, and only female student in her medical school in 1855.
Mary Johnston (November 21, 1870 – May 9, 1936) [1] was an American novelist and women's rights advocate from Virginia. She was one of America's best selling authors during her writing career and had three silent films adapted from her novels.
Mary Ann Calo, Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920–40, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. Jacqueline Francis, Climbing up the Mountain: the Modern Art of Malvin Gray Johnson, Durham NC: North Carolina Central University Art Museum, 2002.
Alain LeRoy Locke, c.1907. He was born Arthur Leroy Locke in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 13, 1885, [4] to parents Pliny Ishmael Locke (1850–1892) and Mary (née Hawkins) Locke (1853–1922), both of whom were descended from prominent families of free blacks.
After Ann's death, Mary replaces her with Henry; as Johnson writes, "this tale of forbidden and unnarratable passionate friendship becomes a tale of forbidden but narratable adulterous love". [36] Like Ann, Henry is a feminine counterpart to Mary's masculine persona. Mary's relationship with Henry is both erotic and paternal: