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Anna Kingsley Biography
Anna KingsleyPlantation owner and former slaveBorn: 1793Birthplace: Senegal Anna Madgigine Jai was captured in her native country of Senegal in 1806 when she was about 13 years old. She was…Brewer's: Donna Anna
A lady beloved by Don Ottavio, but seduced by Don Giovanni, who also killed her father, the “Commandant of the City,” in a duel. (Mozart's opera of Don Giovanni.) Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Anna Matilda
(An), an ultra-sentimental girl. Mrs. Hannah Cowley used this pen-name in her responses in the World to Della Crusca (R. Merry). (See the Baviad by Gifford.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Anna Wintour Biography
Anna Wintourmagazine editorBorn: 11/3/1949Birthplace: London, England So deep was her interest in clothes, Wintour decided against going to college, instead getting a job at Harper's Bazaar (later…Anna Sui Biography
Anna Suifashion designerBorn: 1955 Sui, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, grew up in Detroit, Michigan. She attended New York's Parsons School of Design, where she met renown Vogue fashion…Katharine Hepburn 2003 Deaths
Katharine HepburnAge: 96 independent, sophisticated film, stage, and television actress whose career spanned nearly 70 years. Spencer Tracy was Hepburn's leading man and romantic partner, and…Katharine Graham 2001 Deaths
Katharine GrahamAge: 84 newspaper and magazine publisher who transformed the Washington Post into one of the most influential newspapers in the country. She took control of the paper in 1963…Katharine Washburn 2000 Deaths
Katharine WashburnAge: 57 editor, essayist, and translator who, with John S. Major, compiled World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998), a 1,338–page tome that…Katharine Gunn, 2004 News
British intelligence linguist, was arrested in 2003 for leaking a top-secret request from an official with the United States National Security Agency who was seeking help in bugging United…Warner, Susan Bogert
(Encyclopedia) Warner, Susan Bogert, pseud. Elizabeth Wetherall, 1819–85, American novelist, b. New York City. Of her many books the best known was The Wide, Wide World (1850), a pious, tearful tale…Trending
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