Eleonora Duse appeared also in many plays by contemporary French dramatists. She formed her own theatre troupe with which she toured the world; she died while on tour in the United States.

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George Eliot
1819-80
English Novelist



George Eliot is the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, a great Victorian novelist who developed the method of psychological analysis that is characteristic of modern fiction.

Her great novels are 'Adam Bede', and 'The Mill on the Floss' and 'Middlemarch'.

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Lavinia Fontana
1552-1614
Italian Artist


Fontana is considered the first woman painter to have had a successful artistic career.

She painted large public altarpieces, a rare distinction for a woman artist.

After moving to Rome around 1603, she created the best known of her public commissions, 'The Stoning of St. Stephen Martyr'. This altarpiece, painted for the church of S. Paolo fuori le Mura, one of the seven pilgrimage churches of Rome, was destroyed by fire in 1823.

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Margaret Fuller
1810-50
American Writer




Critic, teacher, woman of letters whose idealistic efforts to civilize the taste and enrich the lives of contemporaries made her important in the history of American culture.

Margaret Fuller wrote 'Women in the Nineteenth Century' - a plea for the intellectual and spiritual fulfillment of women.

In 1844 she became America's first woman foreign correspondent, reporting from Europe for the New York Tribune.

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