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Mariama Ba
(Senegal)
Lida Baarova
(Czech, Austria)
Maryam Ibrahim Babangida
(Nigeria)
Maria Ivanovna Babanova
(Russia)
Mabel Keyes Babcock
Lauren Bacall
(U.S.A.: NY, CA)
Another profile
Lauren Bacall Filmography
Grazyna Bacewicz
(Poland)
Anna Magdalena Bach
(Germany)
Sandy Bacher
(U.S.A.)
Ingeborg Bachmann
(Austria)
Agathe Backer-Grøndhal
(Norway)
June Bacon-Bercey
(U.S.A.: MD)
Laura Badea
(Romania)
Olave Baden-Powell
(U.K.)
Erykah Badu
(U.S.A.: TX)
Joan Baez
(U.S.A.: NY, CA, MA)
Another profile
Sarah G. Bagley
(U.S.A.)
Another profile
Elisaveta Bagryana
(Bulgaria)
Lakshmi Bai
(India)
Another profile
Another profile
Alice A. Bailey
(U.K., U.S.A.)
From Intellect to Intuition
by Alice A. Bailey
Mary Bailey
(U.K.)
Pearl Bailey
(U.S.A.: VA, DC, PA, NY)
Another profile
Film Credits
Pearl Bailey : With a Song in Her Heart
by Keith Brandt, Gershom Griffith (Illustrator)
Joanna Baillie
(U.K.)
Augusta Baker
(U.S.A.: NY, SC)
Ella Baker
(U.S.A.: VA, NY, GA)
Another profile
Ella Baker: Freedom Bound
by Joanne Grant
Ellen S. Baker
Janet (Abbot) Baker
(U.K.)
Josephine Baker
(U.S.A.: MO, France)
Another profile
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Josephine Baker (Black Americans of Achievement, Series Ii)
by Alan Schroeder, Nathan I. Huggins (Editor)
LaVern Baker
(U.S.A.: IL, NY)
Sarah Baker
(U.K.)
Sara Josephine Baker
(U.S.A.: NY)
Another profile
Emma Bakes
(U.K., U.S.A.)
Dora Bakoyiannis
Felicia Ballanger
(France)
Iolanda Balas
(Romania)
Another profile
Emily Greene Balch
(U.S.A.: MA)
Nobel Peace Prize 1946
Maria Louise Baldwin
(U.S.A.: MA)
Another profile
Photo of Maria Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
(U.S.A.)
Another profile
Frances Balfour
(U.K.)
Beatrice V. Ball
(U.S.A.)
Lucille Ball
(U.S.A.)
I Love Lucy
Martha Ballard
(U.S.A.: MA, ME)
Martha Ballard's Diary Online
Margaret Ballinger
(U.K., South Africa)
Balthild
(England, France)
Joyce Banda
(Malawi)
Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike
(Sri Lanka)
Dicksie Bradley Bandy
(U.S.A.: GA)
Nina Bang
(Denmark)
Linda S. Bangert
(U.S.A.)
Tallulah Bankhead
(U.S.A.: AL, NY; U.K.)
Another profile
The Black Widow Tallulah Bankhead
Creative Quotations from Tallulah Bankhead
More Quotes
Elizabeth L. Banks
(U.S.A.)
Tyra Banks
(U.S.A.: CA, NY)
Another profile
Another profile
Tyra's Beauty Inside & Out
by Tyra Banks, Vanessa Thomas Bush (Contributor)
Tyra Banks (Black Americans of Achievement Series)
by Pam Levin
Vilma Banky
(Hungary, U.S.A.)
Brigitta Banti
(Italy)
Theda Bara
(U.S.A.: OH, CA)
Another profile
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Silent Ladies Theda Bara
Jill Barad
(U.S.A.)
Frida Baranek
(Brazil)
Agatha Barbara
(Malta)
Anna Letitia Aikin Barbauld
(U.K.)
Brigitte Bardot
(France)
The Brigitte Bardot Foundation
Judi Bari
(U.S.A.: MD, CA)
Marjorie Faith Barnard
(Australia)
List of publications
Djuna Barnes
(U.S.A.: NY; France)
(Alice) Josephine Barnes
(U.K.)
Pancho (Florence) Lowe Barnes
(U.S.A.)
Pancho : The Biography of Florence Lowe Barnes
by Barbara Hunter Schultz
Natalie Clifford Barney
(U.S.A.: OH, DC; France)
Another profile
Another profile
A Perilous Advantage : The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney
by Anna Livia (Editor), Natalie Clifford Barney, Karla Jay
Nora Stanton (Barney)
(U.S.A.)
Roseanne Barr
(U.S.A.: UT, CA)
Elsa Barraine
(France)
Elizabeth Barrett-Conner
(U.S.A.: IL, MA, CA)
Emily Dunning Barringer
(U.S.A.: NY, CT)
Another profile
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Robertine Barry (Francoise)
(Canada)
Ethel Barrymore
(U.S.A.)
The Photos of Ethyl Barrymore
Charlene Barshefsky
(U.S.A.)
Clara Barton
(U.S.A.: MA, NJ, DC)
Another profile
Clara Barton Homestead
Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross
by Augusta Stevenson, Frank Giacoia (Illustrator)
A Woman of Valor : Clara Barton and the Civil War
by Stephen B. Oates
Carol Bartz
(U.S.A.)
Florence Bascom
(U.S.A.)
Anne Bashkiroff
(U.S.A.: CA)
Joyce Baskins
(U.S.A.: PA)
Angela Bassett
(U.S.A.: NY, FL)
Another profile
Another profile
Daisy Gatson Bates
(U.S.A.: AR)
The Daisy Bates Papers
Daisy May Bates
(Ireland, Australia)
Jean Batten
(New Zealand)
Laura Baugh
(U.S.A.)
Eleanor Baum
(U.S.A.)
Another profile
Emilia Pardo Bazan
(Spain)
Another profile
Another profile
Profile in Spanish
Torn Lace and Other Stories (Texts and Translations. Translations, 5)
by Emilia Pardo Bazan, Maria Cristina Urruela (Translator), Joyce Tolliver (Introduction), Elilia Pardo Bazan (Editor)
Dorothea Beale
(U.K.)
Lillian Kennedy Beam
(U.S.A.: OH, CA)
Mary Ritter Beard
(U.S.A.)
Mary Ritter Beard; A Sourcebook
by Ann J. Lane (Editor), Mary Ritter Beard (Editor)
A Woman Making History : Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters
by Mary Ritter Beard, Nancy F. Cott (Editor)
Simone de Beauvoir
(France)
Lydia Becker
(U.K.)
Gaye Elise Beda
(U.S.A.)
Myriam Bédard
(Canada)
Lyn M. Bedell
(U.S.A.)
Kiran Bedi
(India)
Another profile
Catherine Esther Beecher
(U.S.A.)
Pioneers of Women's Education in the United States : Emma Willard, Catherine Beecher, Mary Lyon.
by Willystine Goodsell et al.
Joy Behar
(U.S.A.)
Another profile
Joy Shtick : Or What Is the Existential Vacuum and Does It Come With Attachments?
by Joy Behar
Aphra Behn
(England)
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
Oroonoko : Or, the Royal Slave
by Aphra Behn, Lore Metzger (Introduction)
Aphra Behn (Writers & Their Work Series)
by S. J. Wiseman
Sorghaghtani Beki
(Mongolia)
Bina Bektiati
(Indonesia)
Award recipient from the Judy Woodruff Fund
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell
(U.K.)
Another profile
The Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell : With the Original Persian on the Facing Page
by Hafiz et al.
Teachings of Hafiz
by Gertrude Bell
Marilyn Bell
(Canada)
Madge Bellamy
(U.S.A.)
Alva Vanderbilt-Belmont
(U.S.A.)
Sheela V. Belur
(India, U.S.A.)
Ruth Benedict
(U.S.A.: NY)
Another profile
Legendary Women: Two Professors, Apgar, Benedict, Will Be Honored
Chrysanthemum and the Sword : Patterns of Japanese Culture
by Ruth Benedict, Ezra Vogel (Introduction)
Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict; The Kinship of Women
by Hilary Lapsley
Ruth Mary Rogan Benerito
(U.S.A.: LA)
Constance Bennett
(U.S.A.)
Photographs
Filmography
Margaret Benson
(U.K.)
Ingrid Bergman
(Sweden, U.S.A.)
Sarah Bernhardt
(France)
My Double Life : The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
by Sarah Bernhardt, Victoria Tietze Larson (Translator)
Dorothy von Beroldingen
(U.S.A.)
Halle Berry
(U.S.A.: OH, CA)
Martha McChesney Berry
(U.S.A.)
Mary Frances Berry
(U.S.A.: TN, MD, MI, DC, CO, PA)
Online HewsHour Interview
Online NewsHour: Charlayne Hunter-Gault interviews Mary Frances Berry
Long Memory : The Black Experience in America
by Mary Frances Berry, John W. Blassingamer, John W. Blassingame
Why Era Failed : Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution
by Mary Frances Berry
Wendy Scott Bertrand
(U.S.A.)
Annie Wood Besant
(U.K., India)
Another profile
Louise Blanchard Bethune
(U.S.A.)
Mary McLeod Bethune
(U.S.A.: SC, FL, DC)
Another profile
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
Mary McLeod Bethune
by Malu Halasa, Coretta Scott King (Designer), Nathan I. Huggins (Editor)
Building a Dream : Mary Bethune's School
by Debbe Heller (Illustrator), Richard Kelso
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
(U.S.A.)
Ela Bhatt
(India)
Another profile
Benazir Bhutto
(Pakistan)
Another profile
Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan : From Zufikar Ali Bhutto to Benazir Bhutto
by Saeed Shafqat
Patricia Billings
(U.S.A.) (U.S.A.)
Teresa Billington-Greig
(U.K.)
Non-Violent Militant : Selected Writings of Teresa Billington-Greig
by Carol McPhee, Ann Fitzgerald (Editor)
Rebecca L. Binder
Rebecca L. Binder (Contemporary World Architects)
by Stanley Tigerman
Hildegard von Bingen
(Germany)
Another profile
Hildegard Von Bingen's Physica : The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing
by Hildegard, Priscilla Throop (Translator), sain Hildegard
Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179 : A Visionary Life
by Sabina Flanagan
Rose Elizabeth Bird
(U.S.A.)
Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird Dies; Supreme Court to Hold Memorial Session
, Dec. 1999
Creative Quotations from Rose Elizabeth Bird
Noel Phyllis Birkby
(U.S.A.)
Elizabeth Bishop
(U.S.A.)
Isabella Bird Bishop
, 1831-1904 ((U.K.)
Another profile
Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
by Isabella Bishop, Isabella Bird
Björk (Guðmundsdóttir)
(Iceland)
WebSense
, the official Björk site.
Alice Guy Blache
(U.S.A.)
Cathleen Black
(U.S.A.)
Clementina Black
(U.K.)
Julie Black
(U.S.A.)
Martha Munger Black
(Canada)
Martha Black : Her Story from the Dawson Gold Fields to the Halls of Parliament
by Martha Louise Black et al.
Nellie Peters Black
(U.S.A.: GA)
Shirley Temple Black
(U.S.A.)
The Story of Shirley Temple Black : Hollywood's Youngest Star
by Carlo Fiori
Alice Stone Blackwell
(U.S.A.)
Antoinette Blackwell
(U.S.A.: NY, NJ)
Antoinette Blackwell Childhood Home
Antoinette Brown Blackwell : A Biography
by Elizabeth Cazden
Elizabeth Blackwell
, 1821-1910 (U.K., U.S.A.: NY, NJ. OH, NC, SC, PA)
Another profile
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Elizabeth Blackwell : The First Woman Doctor
by Francene Sabin, Ann Toulmin-Rothe (Illustrator)
The First Woman Doctor : The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D.
by Rachel Baker, Evelyn Copelman (Illustrator)
Emily Blackwell
(U.K., U.S.A.: NY, OH)
Another profile
Another profile
Bonnie Blair
(U.S.A.)
Another profile
A Winning Edge
by Bonnie Blair, Greg Brown, Doug Keith (Illustrator)
Helen Augusta Blanchard
(U.S.A.)
Cate Blanchett
(Australia)
Another profile
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Fanny Blankers-Koen
(Netherlands)
Another profile
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
(Ukraine, U.S.A.)
Another profile
Another profile
The Blavatsky Study Center
When Daylight Comes: A Biography of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
by Howard Murphet
The Secret Doctrine : The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy (Volumes 1 and 2)
by Helene Petrovna Blavatsky
Mary J. Blige
(U.S.A.: NY, GA)
Sue Blinks
(U.S.A.)
Anna Campbell Bliss
(U.S.A.)
Katherine Blodgett
(U.S.A.)
Another profile
Ethel Blondin-Andrew
(Dene Nation, Canada)
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
(U.S.A.)
Amelia Bloomer : A Photo-Illustrated Biography
by Mary J. Lickteig
Susan Blow
(U.S.A.)
Bessie Blount
(U.S.A.)
Nellie Bly
(U.S.A.)
Another profile
Around the World in 72 Days
(with Nellie Bly)
Getting the Real Story : Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells (Women Who Dared)
by Sue Davidson
Myrna Blyth
(U.S.A.)
Eleanor Boardman
(U.S.A.)
Barbara Bodichon
(U.K.)
Elizabeth Boit
(U.S.A.)
Tonya Bolden
(U.S.A.: NY)
The Book of African-American Women : 150 Crusaders, Creators, and Uplifters
by Tonya Bolden
33 Things Every Girl Should Know : Stories, Songs, Poems and Smart Talk by 33 Extraordinary Women
by Tonya Bolden (Editor)
La Bolduc (Mary Travers)
(Canada)
Jane Matilda Bolin
(U.S.A.: MA, NY)
Another profile
Ruthie Bolton-Holifield
(U.S.A.: MS)
Another biography
Ruthie Bolton-Holifield; Sharpshooting Playmaker
by Terri Morgan
Roberta Bondar
(Canada)
Another profile
Touching the Earth
by Roberta Bondar
On the Shuttle : Eight Days in Space
by Barbara Bondar, Roberta Bondar (Contributor)
Margaret Bondfield
(U.K.)
Winifred Bonfils
(U.S.A.)
Rosa Bonheur
(France)
Rosa Bonheur : All Nature's Children
by Gabriel P. Weisberg
Rosa Bonheur : The Artist's (Auto)Biography
by Anna Klumpke et al.
Anne Bonny
(Ireland, The West Indies)
Another profile
Another profile
Anne Bonney and Mary Read
by Mace Taxco, Vivia Sparkler (Illustrator)
Therese Bonney
(U.S.A., France)
Mary Everett Boole
(England)
Corrie ten Boom
(Netherlands)
Corrie ten Boom House
Rebecca Boone
(U.S.A.: AL)
Elayne Boosler
(U.S.A.)
Film credits
Catherine Booth
(U.K.)
Amanda Borden
(U.S.A.)
Anita Borg
(U.S.A.)
Bente Borsum
(Norway)
Boudica
(England)
Another profile
Nadia Juliette Boulanger
(France)
Hassiba Boulmerka
(Algeria)
Another profile
Margaret Bourke-White
(U.S.A.)
Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer
by Margaret Bourke-White (Photographer), Sean Callahan, Maryann Kornely (Editor)
Focus : Five Women Photographers : Julia Margaret Cameron/Margaret Bourke-White/Flor Garduno/Sandy Skoglund/Lorna Simpson
by Sylvia Wolf, Abby Levine (Editor)
Antoinette Bourignon
(Belgium)
Susan Bowley
(U.S.A.: CA)
Barbara Boxer
(U.S.A.)
Clara Bow
(U.S.A.)
Janine Bowman
(U.S.A.)
Louise Arner Boyd
(U.S.A.: CA)
Another profile
Women Explorers in Polar Regions : Louise Arner Boyd, Kate Marsden, Ida Pfeiffer, Helen Thayer, Agnes Deans Cameron
by Margo McLoone, Margo McLoone-Basta
Louise Arner Boyd Arctic Explorer
by Durlynn Anema
Marie Bracquemond
(France)
Lydia Moss Bradley
(U.S.A.)
Ann Bradstreet
(England, the American Colonies)
Elizabeth Bragg
(U.S.A.)
Sophia Brahe
(Denmark)
Jenny Rosenthal Bramley
(U.S.A.)
Brandy (Brandy Norwood)
(U.S.A.: MS, CA)
Another profile
(Emma) Lucy Braun
(U.S.A.)
The Woody Plants of Ohio : Trees, Shrubs, and Wood Climbers Native, Naturalized, and Escaped
by Emma Lucy Braun
The Monocotyledoneae : Cat-Tails to Orchids (The Vascular Flora of Ohio, Vol 1.)
by E. Lucy Braun
Toni Braxton
(U.S.A.: MD, CA)
Mary Breckinridge
(U.S.A.: KY)
Another profile
Sister Antonia Brenner
(Mexico)
Catherine Breshkovsky
(Russia)
Audrey Brians
(U.S.A.)
Fanny Brice
(U.S.A.)
Filmography
Funny Woman : The Life and Times of Fanny Brice
by Barbara W. Grossman
Anne W. Brigman
(U.S.A.)
Bibliography
Valerie Brisco-Hooks
(U.S.A.: MS, CA)
Elizabeth Knight Britton
(U.S.A.)
The Bronte Family
(U.K.)
Another profile
Gwendolyn Brooks
(U.S.A.: KS, IL)
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
by George E. Kent
Selected Poems
by Gwendolyn Brooks
Louise Brooks
(U.S.A.)
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
(U.S.A.: NC)
Charlotte Hawkins Brown State Historic Site
Charlotte Hawkins Brown : One Woman's Dream
by Diane Silcox-Jarrett
'Mammy' an Appel to the Heart of the South : The Correct Thing to Do-To Say-To Wear
Say-To Wear (African American Women Writers Series) by Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Henry Louis, Jr. Gates (Editor), Carolyn Denard (Introduction)
Clara Brown
(U.S.A.: VA, MO, CO)
Aunt Clara Brown
by Linda Lowery, Janice Lee Porter (Illustrator)
Corrine Brown
(U.S.A.)
Denise Scott Brown
(Zambia, South Africa, U.S.A.)
Dorothy Lavinia Brown
(U.S.A.: PA, TN)
Hallie Q. Brown
(U.S.A.: PA, MS, SC, OH)
Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by Hallie Q. Brown, Randall K. Burkett (Introduction)
(The Unsinkable) Molly Brown
(U.S.A.: MO, CO)
Another profile
Molly Brown Denver's Unsinkable Lady
by Christine Whitacre
Molly Brown; Unraveling the Myth
by Kristen Iverson, Muffet Brown
Olympia Brown
(U.S.A.)
Olympia Brown : The Battle for Equality
by Charlotte Cote
Suffrage and Religious Principle : Speeches and Writings of Olympia Brown
by Dana Greene (Editor)
Rachel Fuller Brown
(U.S.A.: MA, NY)
Another profile
Reneé Brown
(U.S.A.)
Tabitha Moffatt Brown
(U.S.A.: MA, OR)
Willa B. Brown
(U.S.A.: KY, IL)
Marjorie Lee Browne
(U.S.A.: TN, TX, MI, NC)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(U.K.)
Another profile
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
(U.S.A.)
Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Norway)
Another profile
Mary Brush
(U.S.A.)
Maria Bualat
(U.S.A.)
Esther Bubley
(U.S.A.)
Another biography
Another biography
Pearl S. Buck
(U.S.A.)
Another profile
Pearl S. Buck : A Cultural Biography
by Peter Conn
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck, Peter Conn (Editor)
The Big Wave
by Pearl S. Buck
Loreta Velázquez ("Lieutenant Harry Buford")
(Cuba, U.S.A.)
Emma Bugbee
(U.S.A.)
Sandra Bullock
(U.S.A.)
Another profile
Eryn Bulmer
(Canada)
Sigrun Bülow-Hübe
(Sweden, Canada)
Grace Bumbry
(U.S.A.: MO)
Interview with Grace Bumbry
Bonnie Buratti
(U.S.A.)
Eleanor Margaret Peachey Burbidge
(U.K.)
Selma Burke
(U.S.A.: North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania)
Another profile
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
(U.K.)
Another profile
Another profile
Carol Burnett
(U.S.A.)
Another profile
Filmography
Queens of Comedy : Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers and the New Generation of Funny Women (Studies in Humor and Gender , Vol 2
by Susan Horowitz
Fanny Burney
(U.K.)
Another profile
Camilla (Oxford World's Classics)
by Fanny Burney
Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (Penguin Classics)
by Fanny Burney
Lucy Burns
(U.S.A.)
Margaret Taylor Burroughs
(U.S.A.: LA, IL)
Another profile
A Shared Heritage : Art by Four African Americans
by William E. Taylor et al.
General Eva Burrows
(Australia)
Beryl Burton
(U.K.)
Bicycle Online story
Mae Busch
(Australia, U.S.A.)
Barbara Pierce Bush
(U.S.A.: NY, TX)
Another profile
Akosua Busia
(Ghana)
The Seasons of Beento Blackbird : A Novel
by Akosua Busia
Frances Mary Buss
(U.K.)
Lanee Butler
(U.S.A.)
Josephine Butler
(U.K.)
Octavia Butler
(U.S.A.: CA)
Another profile
Kindred (Black Women Writers Series)
by Octavia E. Butler, Robert Crossley (Introduction)
Dawn (Butler, Octavia E. Xenogenesis, Bk. 1.)
by Octavia E. Butler
Selena Sloan Butler
(U.S.A.: GA)
Ada Byron Lovelace
(U.K.)
Another biography
Another biography
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