In Your Face Women

Sometimes, an in-your-face woman's life has chapters like a book. Mary Brent Wehrli is one such woman. The chapter in the 1990's...

That Beatrice Webb was completely self-taught is only of passing interest. Many women born and raised in Great Britain in the 1800's m...

At age twelve, Jessica Watson decided she wanted to sail around the world -- unassisted and alone. At age sixteen, she did it. A citizen o...

Frances Watkins was born free and Black in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1825. She got a good education and many opportunities to read and write...

Everyone's heard of the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency that started in the 1850's and still exists today. But few may realize...

Called the "Tiny Texan" because she was only 4'11" and weighed 97 pounds, Vera Dawn Walker was so short, she had to s...

Born in Oswego, New York, in 1832, Mary Walker grew up on a farm, spent a few years as a teacher and then graduated from medical school in...

When Ethel Walker's physician father died in 1884, her British mother fairly quickly married another man and moved to Washington, D.C....

When Vassar College turned down her application for admittance in the late 1800's because she was only sixteen, Lillian Wald just went...

Even though Rosetta Wakeman was only five feet tall and in her late teens, with no offer of marriage and her family in poverty, she decide...

Born in New Zealand in 1912 and raised in Australia, Nancy Wake set out to seek her fortune when she was sixteen and, after touching base ...