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Hetty Green (November 21, 1834 – July 3, 1916) was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age.Those who knew her well referred to her admiringly as the "Queen of Wall Street" due to her willingness to lend freely and at reasonable interest rates to financiers and city governments during financial panics.
Delphine LaLaurie. Marie Delphine Macarty or MacCarthy (March 19, 1787 – December 7, 1849), more commonly known as Madame Blanque or, after her third marriage, as Madame LaLaurie, was a New Orleans socialite and serial killer who was believed to have tortured and murdered enslaved people in her household.
Women in society. Although the majority of pirates in history have been men, [1] there are around a hundred known examples of female pirates, [2] [a] about forty of whom were active in the Golden Age of Piracy. [4] Some women have been pirate captains and some have commanded entire pirate fleets. Among the most powerful pirate women were ...
This category has the following 16 subcategories, out of 16 total. Films set in 1800 (7 P) Films set in 1801 (4 P) Films set in 1802 (1 P) Films set in 1803 (1 P) Films set in 1804 (7 P) Films set in 1805 (11 P) Films set in 1806 (8 P) Films set in 1807 (7 P)
One of the most well known ladies of strength was Joan Rhodes. She first started out as a cabaret act and variety hour performer, later landing appearances with Bob Hope. Rhodes was known for ...
The movie was the first based upon a book written by an African-American writer. Free State of Jones: 2016: Disenchanted confederate soldiers rally with runaway slaves to establish an abolitionist colony in Mississippi, led by Newton Knight, who fathers a child with a black woman. That story is framed by the one of his great-grandsons, who is ...
Sarah Baartman (Afrikaans: [ˈsɑːra ˈbɑːrtman]; c. 1789 – 29 December 1815), also spelled Sara, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈsɑːrtʃi]), or Saartjie, and Bartman, Bartmann, was a Khoikhoi woman who was exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus, a name that was later attributed to at least one ...
Kapitel (For Women: Chapter 1); writer and director: Cristina Perincioli – award-winning documentary fiction on a women's strike in Berlin; 1972 Sambizanga; director: Sarah Maldoror – feature film about the liberation movement in Angola; 1972 The Heartbreak Kid; director: Elaine May; 1972 The Other Side of the Underneath; director Jane Arden