Charlotte Reinagle Cooper (1870 – 1966) was an English tennis player of the late 19th th century and the beginning of the XXth . She is the first woman to win a gold medal. A first title at Wimbledon Daughter of Teresa Georgiana and Henry Cooper, Charlotte was born September 22, 1870 in Ealing (M
Eleanor of Aquitaine (circa 1122 – 1204) is alternately queen of France, then of England. It plays an important political role in the West, especially with regard to relations between the two countries. Queen of France Eleanor of Aquitaine is the daughter of Guillaume X, Duke of Aquitaine and Aé
French woman of letters of the modern era, Marie de Gournay (1565 – 1645) frequented the scholars of his time and worked in particular on the corrections of Montaignes Essays while continuing his own writings. Self-taught Born in Paris on October 6, 1565 into a wealthy family, Marie Le Jars was th
In 1921, Ada Blackjack was the only woman to participate in Vilhjalmur Stefanssons expedition to the Arctic Ocean; she will also be the only survivor, resisting for months alone on Wrangel Island in extreme conditions. A young abandoned mother Ada Deletuk was born in 1898 in Solomon, Alaska, beyo