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Mabel Loomis Todd
Mabel Loomis Todd 1858-1932, American author, b. Cambridge, Mass. A friend of Emily Dickinson , she edited and deciphered much of the Dickinson material in Poems (with T. W. Higginson, Ser. 1 and Ser. 2, 1890-91), Letters of Emily Dickinson (2 vol., 1894), and Poems (Ser. 3, 1896). Todd also...
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft , 1759-97, English author and feminist, b. London. She was an early proponent of educational equality between men and women, expressing this radical opinion in Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1786). Her most important book, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792),...
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Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln 1818-82, wife of Abraham Lincoln , b. Lexington, Ky. Of a good Kentucky family, she was living with her sister, daughter-in-law of Gov. Ninian Edwards of Illinois, in Springfield, Ill., when she met and married (1842) Lincoln. Although they were very different in temperament an...
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Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell , 1906-63, British statesman. Educated at Oxford, he taught economics at the Univ. of London. During World War II he was a civil servant in the new ministry of economic warfare (1940-42) and in the Board of Trade (1942-45). He entered Parliament as a Labour member in 1945 ...
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Sophia Jex-Blake
Sophia Jex-Blake 1840-1912, English physician, active in opening the medical profession to women in England. A graduate of Queen's College, London, she began (1866) her medical studies in the United States and continued them in Edinburgh, but she met much opposition there and was unable to obtain a...
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1823-1911, American author, b. Cambridge, Mass. A Unitarian minister, he was a leader in the abolitionist movement and was a member of a group that backed John Brown 's attack on Harper's Farry. His Army Life in a Black Regiment (1870), which recounts his experiences a...
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John Clare
John Clare 1793-1864, English poet. A romantic poet who wrote shortly after the vogue for such verse, he had a profound and singular gift for capturing nature in exquisitely specific detail. The son of a farm laborer, Clare was dubbed "the peasant poet." He was probably the poorest major writer...
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Dolley Madison
Dolley Madison 1768-1849, wife of President James Madison, b. Guilford co., N.C. Born Dolley Payne of Quaker parents, she was brought up in simplicity and was married (1790) to a Quaker, John Todd, who died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. She left the Friends to marry Madison in 1794. In late...
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Hal Prince
Hal Prince (Harold Smith Prince), 1928-, American theatrical producer and director, b. New York City. After working as an assistant stage manager, Prince became at 26 the coproducer of Pajama Game, a major Broadway musical of 1954. He followed this with many more successful productions, including...
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim 1930-, American composer and lyricist, b. New York City. As a young man, he studied lyric writing with Oscar Hammerstein 2d, and early in his career he wrote lyrics for Leonard Bernstein 's West Side Story (1957) and collaborated with Jule Styne in the writing of Gypsy...
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