Born on December 10, 1830, in the picturesque town of Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson's life was as intricate as her poems, woven...

Born in London in 1842 to American parents, by 1848 Mary had relocated to New York. From a tender age, her zeal for medicine was evident....

Madam CJ Walker. Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867, in a Louisiana cotton plantation, her journey from an orphaned child to...

Annie Smith Peck, born on October 19, 1850, in Providence, Rhode Island, emerged as a luminous figure in a time when the US was grappling...

Born on January 24, 1862, Edith Wharton, originally named Edith Newbold Jones, hailed from New York's social elite, the prominent Jones...

"I shall never worry about men's opinions; I shall be true to my own convictions till the day I die." Constance Markievicz, born...