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Pocahontas, Indian Princess
Pocahontas was an Indian princess, the daughter of Powhatan, the powerful chief of the Algonquian Indians in the Tidewater region of Virginia. She was born around 1595 to... |
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Anne of Austria, Queen of France
Anne of Austria, queen of France, daughter of King Philip III of Spain. Married to the French king Louis XIII (1615), she was neglected by her husband and sought the soci... |
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Mary Stuart, Princess of Orange
Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange-Nassau, was the eldest daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland and his queen, Henrietta Maria. She was th... |
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Marie Thérèse of Austria, Queen of France
Marie Thérèse of Austria, Queen of France. Infanta of Spain, daughter of Felipe IV, King of Spain 1621-1665 and Princess Elisabeth de France, Born 20 September 1638 Madri... |
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Mary II, Queen of England
Mary II, born in 1662, was the daughter of James II and Anne Hyde. She was married to William of Orange as a matter of Charles II's foreign policy; she and William had no... |
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Queen Anne of Great Britain
Queen Anne became Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702, succeeding her brother-in-law, William III of England and II of Scotland. Her Catholic father, J... |
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Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria
Empress Maria Theresa was the first and only female head of the Habsburg dynasty. She was Archduchess of Austria, and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia and ruler of other terr... |
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Madame de Pompadour
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson marchioness de Pompadour was the mistress of Louis XV. Educated in art and literature, she married Charles-Guillaume Le Normant d'Étoiles in 174... |
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Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
Catherine and Peter III hated one another. On the death of Elizabeth on December 25, 1761, Peter ascended the throne as Peter III. He quickly showed his mania for all thi... |
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Marie Antoinette, Guillotined 1793
Marie Antoinette was Queen Consort of France. Daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria of the Habsburg dynasty and her consort, the Emperor Francis I, she was married... |
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Mary Wollstonecraft, Feminist
Wollstonecraft's lasting place in the history of philosophy rests upon A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). In this classical feminist text, she appealed to egali... |
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Josephine, Empress of France
A socialite without equal, Josephine was mistress to several leading political figures and left a young General Napoleon Bonaparte completel... |
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Jane Austen, English Novelist
Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works include Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion and Emma. Her biting social commentary and masterful use of... |
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Marie Louise of Austria
Marie Louise, Empress of the French (1810–1815) as consort of Napoleon I and duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla (1816–47), daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I... |
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Mary Shelley, Writer of Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Romantic novelist, biographer and editor, best known as the writer of Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). Shelley was 21... |
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