A pioneering record-label owner and engineer, she played guitar in a raw and unapologetically abrasive way. “Whatever song it was,” she said, “I always creamed it.”
Tag: Biographical Information
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Overlooked No More: Elizabeth Wagner Reed, Who Resurrected Legacies of Women in Science
Reed made several discoveries in genetics and dedicated her career toward supporting women scientists. Yet she herself fell into obscurity.
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Overlooked No More: Audrey Munson, Forgotten but, Living On in Sculptures, Not Gone
Called “the American Venus,” she was a model immortalized by sculptors, her image remaining visible in monuments across New York City.
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Overlooked No More: Katharine Briggs and Isabel Myers, Creators of a Personality Test
Mother and daughter, they developed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which has helped millions of people discover if they are introverts or extroverts or thinkers or feelers.
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Overlooked No More: Vera Menchik, First Women’s Chess Champion
As the only woman in a tournament, she was often greeted with skepticism. She once responded by saying that she looked forward “to drinking some men’s blood.”