Eleanor Roosevelt

Marie Souvestre was a free-thinking feminist, daughter of the French author and philosopher Emile Souvestre . Her school, Les Ruches, was widely admired for its academic rigour. It educated many outstanding women, including Beatrice Chamberlain

In FinlandRF met the national hero Marshal Mannerheim . On her first visit to the USA she met Rebecca West , Ruth Draper , Anna Pavlova , and H. G. Wells ; on...

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote: we have needed this book and I hope it will find its way into the hands of the great masses of people in our nation.

The book was a great success in England, where it went into twenty printings during the first several weeks of its release. Soon afterwards it was translated into French by Bussy herself and Roger Martin du Gard

JS sent a copy of The American Way of Life to Eleanor Roosevelt , who wrote back, I love it! . . . Would you be willing to have the President read it on his...

VB embarked on a second American lecture tour, during which she was to have lunch with Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House; the tour ended in December.

Dorothy Strachey taught Allenswood's most famous pupil, Eleanor Roosevelt , who was there from 1899 to 1902. Her reports on Roosevelt's work were not glowing, but improved over time. They ranged from Intelligent...

The success of JS in the USA was confirmed when she stayed with President and Mrs Roosevelt at the White House.

During the Second World War, LS worked as a journalist for the Daily Herald. She reported on the visit to England of American First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in October 1942, a trip that aimed...

LS 's next play, Great Day, which opened on Broadway at the Playhouse Theatre on 14 March 1945, grew out of her journalism dealing with Eleanor Roosevelt 's war-time visit to England in October...

DB wrote candidly about the influences on her novel. In her introduction to it she states that the story has been written to please myself, without thought of my own vanity or modesty, without regard...

She spoke during these months in the USA on other hot political topics such as birth control and white inhumanity towards blacks. In February 1933 she shared a platform with Eleanor Roosevelt . Back in...

AM visited New York and Denver, as well as San Francisco and other places in California, including the Yosemite Valley, Monterey, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara. She was also in...