Directory of Women Resources
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This category includes sites about well known and historically significant women. All sites are suitable for children and teens to read and use for enjoyment or for schoolwork. Biographies may be brief and sites may have several, perhaps connected by occupation, but the information contained should have the basic details, e.g., birth and death dates, some details of the life lived, major accomplishments, and so forth.
Subcategories
- Adams, Abigail
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Aniston, Jennifer
- Anthony, Susan
- Attema, Martha
- Austen, Jane
- Banks, Lynne Reid
- Barnes, Florence
- Barton, Clara
- Batten, Jean Gardner
- Benedict, Ruth
- Blume, Judy
- Bojaxhiu, Agnes Gonxha
- Boleyn, Anne
- Bondar, Roberta
- Brett, Jan
- Buffie, Margaret
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson
- Byars, Betsy
- Campbell, Kim
- Canada
- Cassatt, Mary
- Cleary, Beverly
- Cochran, Jacqueline
- Coleman, Bessie
- Collins, Eileen Marie
- Comaneci, Nadia
- Corbin, Margaret Cochran
- Curie, Marie
- Cushman, Karen
- Duff, Hilary
- Earhart, Amelia
- Eliot, George
- Empress Matilda
- Fernández de Kirchner, Cristina
- Fleming, Peggy
- Frank, Anne
- Funke, Cornelia
- Gellar, Sarah Michelle
- George, Jean Craighead
- Germany
- Greenaway, Kate
- Grey, Lady Jane
- Gāndhī, Indira
- Hamill, Dorothy
- Hart, Melissa Joan
- Hinton, S. E.
- Holt, Kimberly Willis
- Hopkins, Cathy
- Hughes, Emily
- Hunter, Clementine
- Hypatia
- Jemison, Mae C.
- Jemison, Mary
- Keller, Helen
- King, Coretta Scott
- Kondakova, Elena
- Kwan, Michelle
- Lenski, Lois
- Lewis, Edmonia
- Leyster, Judith
- Lipinski, Tara
- Little, Jean
- Lowry, Lois
- Mankiller, Wilma
- Martineau, Harriet
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- McAuliffe, Sharon Christa
- McNaughton, Janet
- Mead, Margaret
- Montgomery, L. M.
- Moore, Mandy
- Mother Teresa
- Netherlands
- Nimmo, Jenny
- Numeroff, Laura
- O'Keeffe, Georgia
- Ochoa, Ellen
- Park, Barbara
- Parker, Cynthia Ann
- Parks, Rosa
- Paterson, Katherine
- Payette, Julie
- Picotte, Susan La Flesche
- Pitcher, Molly
- Pocahontas
- Potter, Beatrix
- Queen Anne
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Queen Mary I
- Queen Mary II
- Queen Victoria
- Quimby, Harriet
- Raven-Symoné
- Retton, Mary Lou
- Ride, Sally Kristen
- Ross, Betsy
- Rowling, J. K.
- Russia
- Sacagawea
- Sampson, Deborah
- Sewell, Anna
- Shelley, Mary
- Slocum, Frances
- Speare, Elizabeth George
- Spears, Britney
- Spyri, Johanna
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Stratton-Porter, Gene
- Strug, Kerri
- Tereshkova, Valentina
- Trachtenberg, Michelle
- Truth, Sojourner
- Tubman, Harriet
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Viorst, Judith
- Watson, Emma
- Wells, Ida B.
- Wilcox Smith, Jessie
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Winnemucca, Sara
Resources in This Category
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Children's Encyclopedia of Women
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/womenenc/womenenc.htm
Biographies of famous women written by third and fourth grade students. -
Distinguished Women of Past and Present
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/
Tells the stories of hundreds of women who have helped to shape the course of history. Searchable by name or topic. -
Joan of Arc - Maid of Heaven
http://www.maidofheaven.com/joanofarc_quick_life_facts.asp
Quick facts with pictures and maps. -
Mary Todd Lincoln Research Site
http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln15.html
Offers an overview of her life, trivia questions and pictures. -
Open Collections Program: Women Working
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/people.html
Brief biographical sketches of individuals who have made significant contributions to Women Working or whose manuscripts, diaries, letters, or archival materials have been digitized. From the Harvard University Library. -
WIC - Biography Index
http://www.wic.org/bio/idex_bio.htm
Alphabetical listing of biographies provided by the Women’s International Center.
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