Lady of Legacy: Sonora Webster Carver
Sonora Webster Carver was an American entertainer, widely known for being one of the first female horse divers in the world. She was born on February 2, 1904 to a…
Lady of Legacy
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Lady of Legacy: Gertrude Bell
Well-behaved women seldom make history. -Laurel Ulrich The Victorian Era Great Britain was bursting at the seams. Rapid growth and developments were being made across countries. The medical, scientific, and…
Lady of Legacy: Mary Delany
By the time Mary Delany died at age 88 in 1788, she had outlived two husbands, mingled with Handel, befriended King George III and Queen Charlotte, lived in Windsor and…
Lady Of Legacy: Ray Eames
“I never gave up painting, I just changed my palette. ” Ray Kaiser Eames (December 15, 1912 – August 21, 1988) made up half of the creative duo that spread…
Lady Of Legacy: Sophia Jex-Blake, MD
United Kingdom, 1870. Charles Dickens dies in Rochester. The postal headquarters puts Victoria’s face on the new Three Halfpence Red stamp. In Edinburgh, Sophia Jex-Blake and the first female medical…
Lady Of Legacy: Tomoe Gozen
In the feudal era, samurai ruled Japan. Under the Shogun, these warrior dynasties formed the country’s aristocracy. But this military nobility did more than enjoy the cush of privelege. Samurai…
Lady Of Legacy: Doris Lessing
I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the steps into the air, climbing on the strength of my own drunkenness into…
Lady of Legacy: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as…
