"The Bonnie Parker Story The Bonnie Parker Story is a 1958 crime film directed by William Witney. It is loosely based on the life of Bonnie Parker, a well-known outlaw of the 1930s. The film stars Dorothy Provine as Parker; Parker's actual historical partner, Clyde Barrow, is renamed Guy Darrow for the film's story, and played by Jack Hogan.The film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with ""Machine Gun Kelly"". Diner waitress Bonnie Parker is just as tired of her job in 1932 Texas as she is of customers like Guy Darrow, who try too hard"
"Valerie Solanas Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist and author best known for writing the ""SCUM Manifesto,"" which she self-published in 1967, and attempting to murder Andy Warhol in 1968. Solanas had a turbulent childhood. She said her father regularly sexually abused her and she had a volatile relationship with her mother and stepfather after her parents' divorce. She was sent to live with her grandparents but ran away after being physically abused by her alcoholic grandfather. Solanas came out as a lesbian in the 1950s. After graduating with a degree"
"Sarah T. Bolton Sarah Tittle Bolton née Barrett (December 18, 1814 – August 4, 1893) was an American poet and activist. She has been called Indiana's ""pioneer poet"" and is best known for her poem ""Paddle Your Own Canoe"" (1850). An activist for women's rights, she worked with Robert Dale Owen during Indiana's 1850–1851 constitutional convention to include the recognition of women's property rights. Sarah Tittle Barrett was born on December 18, 1814, in Newport Barracks, Kentucky. She was one of Esther (Pendleton) and Jonathan Belcher Barrett's six children. Sarah was named for her paternal grandmother, Sarah (Tuttle) Barrett. Lemuel"
"Sally Miall Sarah Greenaway Miall (nee Leith, 18 December 1918 – 6 October 2010), was a British rally driver and novelist, and a Second World War codebreaker at Bletchley Park. She was born Sarah Greenaway Leith on 18 December 1918 at New Hall, Romford, Essex, the daughter of (George Easlemont) Gordon Leith (1885–1965), a South African architect who had served as a captain in the Royal Field Artillery (and was recovering from a Western Front gas attack at the time of her birth), and his wife, Ethel Mary Leith, née Cox (1888–1974). Most of Sally's childhood took place in Johannesburg."
"Charlotte Salomon Charlotte Salomon (April 16, 1917 – October 10, 1943) was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is primarily remembered as the creator of an autobiographical series of paintings ""Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel"" (Life? or Theater?: A Song-play) consisting of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 in the south of France, while Salomon was in hiding from the Nazis. In October 1943 she was captured and deported to Auschwitz, where she and her unborn child were gassed to death by the Nazis soon after her arrival. In 2015, a stunning nineteen-page confession by Salomon to"
"inspired the song ""Sallie-Anne"" by Sydney band Spy vs Spy. Sallie-Anne Huckstepp Sallie-Anne Huckstepp (12 December 1954 – 6 February 1986) was an Australian prostitute and heroin addict who became a writer and whistleblower. Huckstepp was born Sallie-Anne Krivoshow and attended Dover Heights High School and Moriah College in Sydney. She left school at the age of 17 and married Bryan Huckstepp. After travelling to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, her husband asked her to work as a prostitute to help support his heroin addiction. They later returned to Sydney, where Huckstepp continued prostitution, eventually developing a heroin habit of her own."
"bicycles, telephones and the wireless. Allen was known as 'Robert' by her close circle of female friends, and she was called 'Sir' by her officers. Her friends included Margaret Damer Dawson, Isobel Goldingham and Helen Bourn Tagart, all of whom she met in her policing days. She wrote three volumes of autobiography: ""The Pioneer Policewoman"" (1925), ""A Woman at the Cross Roads"" (1934), and ""Lady in Blue"" (1936). ""A Woman at the Cross Roads"" reveals aspects of her life and philosophy but is reticent about her private life. It was written at the time when Allen met Hitler, and her"
"Elizabeth Savage (writer) Elizabeth Savage (née Fitzgerald 15 February 1918 – 15 July 1989) was an American novelist and short-story writer. In nine novels, she explored the turbulent decades between 1930 and 1980 in the Western United States and along the Atlantic Coast. Her work focuses on men and women dealing with the Great Depression, World War II, the birth of the women’s movement, the Sixties counterculture and the Vietnam War. Among her best-known books are ""The Last Night at the Ritz"", the semi-autobiographical ""The Girls from the Five Great Valleys"", ""Summer of Pride"", ""But Not for Love"", ""A Fall"
"Maya Angelou Maya Angelou (; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, ""I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"" (1969), tells of her life up to"
"However, some of Bolton's poems show her concerns for social justice and sympathy for supporters of radical causes. For example, ""Ne Dormiat Deus"" expresses Bolton's concerns for women's inequality; ""Evicted,"" ""Two Scenes,” and ""Ye Sons of Toil"" describe inequalities among social and economic classes; and ""The Doomed Anarchist, "" a poem inspired by Chicago's 1886 Haymarket affair, protests the death penalty. The last stanza of ""Paddle Your Own Canoe,"" sums up Bolton's philosophy of life: She is commemorated by the Sarah T. Bolton Relief, a 1941 bronze relief in the Indiana Statehouse, Indianapolis. Sarah T. Bolton Sarah Tittle Bolton née"
"testimony when speaking of one's life and struggles, ironic understatement, and the use of natural metaphors, rhythms, and intonations. Angelou, instead of depending upon plot, used personal and historical events to shape her books. Maya Angelou Maya Angelou (; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou"
"Mary MacLane Mary MacLane (May 1, 1881 – ""c"". August 6, 1929) was a controversial Canadian-born American writer whose frank memoirs helped usher in the confessional style of autobiographical writing. MacLane was known as the ""Wild Woman of Butte"". MacLane was a very popular author for her time, scandalizing the populace with her shocking bestselling first memoir and to a lesser extent her two following books. She was considered wild and uncontrolled, a reputation she nurtured, and was openly bisexual as well as a vocal feminist. In her writings, she compared herself to another frank young memoirist, Marie Bashkirtseff, who"
"The whole episode was serenaded in verse by a William E. Heasell, who called it ""An Early Parachute Descent in Bristol"". <poem style=""margin-left: 2em""> </poem> Sarah Ann Henley Sarah Ann Henley (8 July 1862 – 31 March 1948) was a barmaid from Easton, Bristol, who became famous in 1885 for surviving a suicide attempt by jumping from the Clifton Suspension Bridge, a fall of almost . On Friday, 8 May 1885, Thomas Stevens, resident inspector for the Clifton Suspension Bridge, reported that Henley had climbed over the railings and on to the parapet. Before anyone could reach her, she had"
"Her poems are published in ""Poems"" (1865), ""Life and Poems of Sarah Tittle Bolton"" (1880), and ""Songs of a Lifetime"" (1892). Her most well known poem is “Paddle Your Own Canoe.” Emma Sangernebo, née Elyes (1877–1969), was a well-known local artist trained at Herron Art School, Indianapolis. She was both a sculptor and painter. A member of the National League of American Pen Women, she was awarded the commission. Sangernebo based the sculpture on a photograph of Bolton that appeared in Bolton’s Life and Poems of Sarah Tittle Bolton (1880). She completed the sculpture in Chicago where it was also"
"Alice Dalsheimer Alice Dalsheimer (December 1, 1845 – January 15, 1880) was an American poet. She published in local newspapers under the pseudonym of Salvia Dale. She was born Alice Solomon in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received her education in the city schools, and in 1865 became a teacher. Her score on the qualifying examination headed a list of 250 applicants. In 1867 she married Mr. Dalsheimer, a lawyer, and gave up teaching, but resumed it in 1873, when she became principal of the girls' department of a school under the management of the Hebrew Educational Society, where she remained"
"In addition a Memorial Plaque on the facade of the building commemorates the artist. Charlotte Salomon Charlotte Salomon (April 16, 1917 – October 10, 1943) was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is primarily remembered as the creator of an autobiographical series of paintings ""Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel"" (Life? or Theater?: A Song-play) consisting of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 in the south of France, while Salomon was in hiding from the Nazis. In October 1943 she was captured and deported to Auschwitz, where she and her unborn child were gassed to death by the"
"as the bookend quote of Criminal Minds season 6 episode 15, “Today I Do.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her works include ""Poems of Passion"" and ""Solitude"", which contains the lines ""Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone"". Her autobiography, ""The Worlds and I"", was published in 1918, a year before her death. Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family later moved north of Madison, after losing its"
"Lou Andreas-Salomé Lou Andreas-Salomé (born either Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé or Lioulia von Salomé, ; in St. Petersburg, Russia on February 12th, 1861 - died in Göttingen, Germany on February 5th, 1937) was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and a well traveled author, narrator, and Essayist from a Russian-German family. Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships with a broad array of distinguished western thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Paul Rée, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Salomé was born in St. Petersburg to an army general; Gustav Ludwig von Salomé (1807-1878), and his wife; Louise, b. Wilm (1823-1913). Salomé"
"May 5, 1947 ""But have I given Him my heart? There must be some holding back, or my difficulties with people wouldn't be as they are. Through long habit & also because of native ego (that is --a desire rampant in me from birth to impress & dominate people) I am weak and unconsciously become of the devil's party by thinking of myself instead of Him."" Emily Coleman Emily Coleman (1899–1974) was an American born writer, and a lifelong compulsive diary keeper. She also wrote a single novel, ""The Shutter of Snow"" (1930), published under the name Emily Holmes Coleman."
"of her own books. ""Valley of the Dolls"" spans twenty years (1945–1965) in the lives of three young women: Anne Welles, the New England beauty who liberates herself from her staid small town by coming to New York, where she falls in love with the dashing Lyon Burke; Neely O'Hara, an ebullient vaudevillian who becomes a Hollywood star and self-destructs; and Jennifer North, a showgirl with little talent but a gorgeous face and figure, who becomes a friend to both. All three women fall prey to the ""dolls,"" amphetamines and barbiturates, a euphemism which Susann coined. The book was published"
"Jean Ross Jean Iris Ross Cockburn (7 May 1911 – 27 April 1973) was a British cabaret singer, fashion model, political activist, and writer. Ross partly served as the model for the fictional character Sally Bowles in Christopher Isherwood's ""The Berlin Stories"" (1935–39), later adapted into the play, then film, I Am a Camera and subsequently into the long-running stage musical ""Cabaret"" and the successful film of the same name. For the remainder of her life, Ross believed her popular association with the character of Sally Bowles overshadowed her life's work in political activism. Ross was born at Maison Ballassiano"
"30, 1941), whom she lived with for the rest of her life, and referred to as ""her wife"". Boye committed suicide on 23 April 1941. She overdosed on sleeping pills. She was found, according to the police report at the Regional Archives in Gothenburg, on 27 April, curled up at a boulder on a hill with a view just north of Alingsås, near Bolltorpsvägen, by a farmer who was going for a walk. The boulder is now a memorial stone. Margot Hanel committed suicide shortly thereafter. Karin Boye was given two very different epitaphs. The best-known is the poem ""Dead"
"dramatised documentary, ""A Singular Woman"" was made by Gillian Coote using text from an unpublished autobiography written by Byles, along with reenactments and commentary by friends. Marie Byles Marie Beuzeville Byles (8 April 1900 – 21 November 1979) was a committed conservationist, pacifist, the first practising female solicitor in New South Wales (NSW), mountaineer, explorer and avid bushwalker, feminist, journalist, and an original member of the Buddhist Society in New South Wales. She was also a travel and non-fiction writer. The eldest of three children, Marie was born in 1900 in Ashton upon Mersey in what was then Cheshire, England,"
"Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop (1847 – September 11, 1892) was an American social reformer and autobiographer. Her prominence came from her remarkable experience, being confined and unlawfully imprisoned in the Utica Lunatic Asylum for 26 months (October 1880 – December 1882), through a plot of a secret enemy to kill her. She eventually managed to communicate with James Bailey Silkman, a lawyer who, like herself, was confined in the same asylum under similar circumstances. He succeeded in obtaining a writ of ""habeas corpus"", and Judge George G. Barnard of the New York Supreme Court pronounced Lathrop sane and"
"Anne Bailey Anne Bailey (1742 – November 22, 1825) was a story teller and frontier scout who served in the fights of the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War. Her single-person ride in search of an urgently needed powder supply for the endangered Clendenin's Settlement (present-day Charleston, West Virginia) was used as the template for Charles Robb's 1861 poem ""Anne Bailey's Ride"". She is known as the ""Heroine of the Kanawha Valley"". ""Mad Anne"" Bailey was born in Liverpool, England. She first arrived in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia at about the age of 19 after both of her parents"
"Caroline Slade Caroline Jennings Slade (October 7, 1886 — June 25, 1975; born Caroline Jennings Beach) was a New York State social welfare worker, child and women’s rights activist, and author of six starkly realistic novels that depicted poverty, misfortune, and social injustice within the lower stratum of American society during the Great Depression. Slade’s books—of which ""The Triumph of Willie Pond"" (1940), ""Lilly Crackell"" (1943), and ""Margaret"" (1946) are probably her best known—have been described as perfecting the social problem novel and are often categorized as Depression Era Literature. Caroline Jennings Beach was born October 7, 1886 in Minneapolis,"
"My Gal Sal My Gal Sal is a 1942 20th Century Fox musical starring Rita Hayworth and Victor Mature. The film is a biopic of 1890s composer and songwriter Paul Dresser and singer Sally Elliot. It was based on a biographical essay, sometimes erroneously referred to as a book, by Dresser's younger brother, novelist Theodore Dreiser. (Dreiser was the original family name.) Some of the songs portrayed as Dresser's work were actually written by him, but several were created for the film by the Hollywood songwriting team of Ralph Grainger and Leo Robin. Sally Elliott (Rita Hayworth), a musical star"
"Sarah Dyer Hobart Sarah Dyer Hobart (pseudonym, Floyd Bentley; September 20, 1845 – November 1, 1921) was an American author of poetry, prose, and songs. Some of her more notable poems included, “The Record of Company B”, “The Legend of St. Freda”, and “Hector's Recompense”. Sarah Dyer was born in Otsego, Wisconsin Territory, September 20, 1845, or 1846. Her father, Wayne B. Dyer, was the first man to make a home in the town, having arrived in Otsego in May 1844. Her parents were among the earliest settlers in that part of the State of Wisconsin, and her early life"
"Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (March 29, 1831 – March 10, 1919) was a British novelist and teacher. Her career is an illustration of the capacity of woman under stress of sorrow to conquer the world and be successful. Many of the plots of her stories are laid in Scotland and England. The scenes are from her girlhood recollection of surroundings. Her works include, ""Jan Vedder's Wife"", ""The Border Shepherdess"", ""Feet of Clay"", ""Friend Olivia"", ""The Bow of Orange Ribbon"", ""Remember the Alamo"", ""She Loved a Sailor"", ""A Daughter of Fife"", ""The Squire of Sanddal Side"", ""Paul"
"Selfixhe Ciu Selfixhe Ciu (married name Selfixhe Broja, pen name Kolombja, born in Gjirokastër in 1918, died in Tirana in 2003) was an Albanian writer and the first Albanian woman writer to ever publish literature in Albania. On 28 November 1935, when she was 17, Selfixhe Ciu published under the plume name ""Kolombja"", a poem on the ""Populli"" newspaper. She then is part of the Albanian writers of the 1930s period. Born in Gjirokastër in 1918, Ciu was friends with Musine Kokalari, the first Albanian woman to publish a novel. She was studying in Florence, Italy, when the Italian invasion"
"political satires. Devoted to lyricism, one of her most notable poems, ""Mein Name ist Ausländer"" (My name is foreigner), was published in Turkish school books. She also published books in Germany regarding the ""emotional and physical effects that loneliness, deprivation, and alienation have on immigrants"". A few days before her 26th birthday, Ertan called the broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk to announce she would be committing suicide by self-immolation. She explained her motive as a response to growing xenophobia in Germany. The public self-immolation occurred in the early morning hours at the intersection of Simon-von-Utrecht-Strasse and Detlef-Bremer-Straße in Hamburg's St. Pauli quarter."
"Paris. Costanza's Jewish background also worked against her. Lawrence Powell would later pen a poem, ""I don't get it"", about the women's deaths. Sarah Powell Sarah Gerau Powell (1922–1941) was an influential French poet of Jewish origin. Famous in large part for the impact she had on the early writing career of philosopher and novelist Simone de Beauvoir, Powell was killed in the Dachau concentration camp in 1941 following the Fall of France. Her life is best chronicled in English language texts today by J.J. Douglas. Powell's best known work was ""The Dwarf Boy Chronicles"", which upon publication in early"
"Sanders Anne Laubenthal Sanders Anne Laubenthal (December 25, 1943 – May 15, 2002) was an American poet, novelist, historian and textbook writer. Much of her work concerns Mobile, Alabama, of which she was a native. She also wrote about the history of unrecorded areas of Scotland. She is best known, however, for one major work, the Arthurian fantasy ""Excalibur"", first published in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in August 1973 and reprinted a number of times since. Laubenthal served the United States Air Force from the time of the Vietnam War, starting writing OJT books for trainees in comic book"