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Susan Bogert Warner Susan Bogert Warner
Susan Bogert Warner pseud. Elizabeth Wetherall, 1819-85, American novelist, b. New York City. Of her many books the best known was The Wide, Wide World (1850), a pious, tearful tale of an orphan. Her other novels include Queechy (1852), The Hills of the Shatemuc (1856), and Melbourne... Read more
Seraphine Seraphine
Séraphine (or Séraphine de Senlis) ( Séraphine Louis) (b Arsy, Oise, 2 Sept. 1864; d Clermont, Oise, 11 Dec. 1942). French naive painter. After being orphaned very young, she spent her youth as a farmhand and later entered domestic service in Senlis. She began painting when she was... Read more
Joy Adamson Joy Adamson
Joy Adamson Joy Adamson (1910-1980) is best known for the books and films depicting her work in Africa with "Elsa the Lioness," introduced in her book Born Free. Together with husband George Adamson, she raised the orphaned Elsa from a cub and trained the lioness to fend for herself in the wild.... Read more
Ruth Westheimer Ruth Westheimer
Ruth Karola Westheimer Ruth K. Westheimer (born 1928) has gained fame for giving practical and straightforward advice for sexual problems. Known to her public simply as "Dr. Ruth, " the New York psychologist, broadcaster, and writer Dr. Ruth Westheimer became known for giving out sexual... Read more
C.J. Madame Walker C.J. Madame Walker
C. J. Walker As a manufacturer of hair care products for African American women, Madame C.J. Walker, born Sarah Breedlove (1867-1919), became one of the first American women millionaires. Madame C.J. Walker, named Sarah Breedlove at birth, was born December 23, 1867, in Delta, Louisiana, to... Read more
Asylums Asylums
ASYLUMS Establishments that exist for the aid and protection of individuals in need of assistance due to disability, such as insane persons, those who are physically handicapped, or persons who are unable to properly care for themselves, such as orphans. The term asylum has been used, in... Read more
Lillian Gish Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish 1896-1993, American stage and movie actress, b. Springfield, Ohio. In 1912 she began her film career with D. W. Griffith . A fragile, delicate beauty, Gish often played a heroine rescued from cruel fate at the last moment. For Griffith, she appeared in The Birth of a Nation (1915), ... Read more
Sally Sally
Sally (1920), a musical comedy by Guy Bolton (book), Jerome Kern (music), Clifford Grey and others (lyrics). [New Amsterdam Theatre, 570 perf.] Sally Rhinelander ( Marilyn Miller), an orphan and a dishwasher at the Elm Tree Alley Inn, is befriended by her co‐worker “Connie”... Read more
Elinor (Hoyt) Wylie Elinor (Hoyt) Wylie
Elinor (Hoyt) Wylie 1885-1928, American poet and novelist, b. Somerville, N.J. She was famous during her life almost as much for her ethereal beauty and personality as for her melodious, sensuous poetry. Her first notable collection of poems, Nets to Catch the Wind (1921) was followed by Black... Read more
Orphan Trains Orphan Trains
Orphan Trains The term orphan trains refers to the mid-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century method of placing destitute, urban children in the homes of largely rural families. Mid- and late-nineteenth-century reformers were increasingly concerned with the accumulating social ills of an... Read more

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