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	George Sand George Sand , pseud. of Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, baronne Dudevant , 1804-76, French novelist. Other variant forms of her maiden name include Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin. Born of an aristocratic father and a lower-class mother, she was reared by her austere paternal grandmother on a country... Read more
	Bette Clair McMurray Bette Clair McMurray Betty Clair McMurray (1924-1980) was a typist who invented Liquid Paper. Bette Clair McMurray dropped out of school when she was seventeen because of disciplinary difficulties. In the 1940s there were very few jobs open to young women. She could not type, but she got a... Read more
	Phaedra Phaedra , in Greek mythology, daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë. She was the wife of Theseus . When her stepson, Hippolytus , rejected her love, she accused him of raping her and hanged herself.... Read more
	Medusa Medusa , in Greek mythology, most famous of the three monstrous Gorgon sisters. She was once a beautiful woman, but she offended Athena, who changed her hair into snakes and made her face so hideous that all who looked at her were turned to stone. When Medusa was with child by Poseidon, Perseus... Read more
	Maxine Elliott Elliott, Maxine [née Jessie Dermot] (1868–1940), actress. The daughter of a New England sea captain, she had no specific affection for the stage but took up acting solely as a means of support and quit when she had made her fortune, although much of her wealth actually derived from... Read more
	Echo (Greek) Echo in Greek mythology, mountain nymph. She assisted Zeus in one of his amorous adventures by distracting Hera with her chatter. For this Hera made her unable to speak except to repeat another's last words. She fell in love with Narcissus, but when he rejected her, she pined away until only her... Read more
	Catherine I Catherine I 1683?-1727, czarina of Russia (1725-27). Of Livonian peasant origin, Martha Skavronskaya was a domestic when she was captured (1702) by Russian soldiers. As mistress of Aleksandr D. Menshikov she met Czar Peter I (Peter the Great), who made her his mistress. After her conversion... Read more
	Jewel Stradford Lafontant Jewel Stradford LaFontant 1922-1997 Lawyer, government official Jewel Stradford LaFontant became a key player in the fields of law and politics long before the women's movement gained momentum in the 1960s. Her father, renowned U.S. Supreme Court attorney C. Francis Stradford, carefully groomed... Read more
	Maria Theresa Maria Theresa , 1717-80, Austrian archduchess, queen of Bohemia and Hungary (1740-80), consort of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and dowager empress after the accession (1765) of her son, Joseph II. Her father, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI , altered the Hapsburg family law by the pragmatic... Read more
	Joanna Southcott Joanna Southcott , 1750-1814, English religious visionary. Uneducated, even illiterate, she spent her earlier years in domestic service. She began c.1792 to claim the gift of prophecy; her "revelations" attracted many followers. Later she announced that, as the woman in Revelation 12, she would... Read more