Louise Colet by Adele Grasset, 1842 We meet Madame Arnoux through the eyes of Frederic Moreau, the protagonist of The Sentimental Education ...

Mickey and her pet gibbon Emily Hahn was born in 1905 in St. Louis. Known to everyone as Mickey, her family soon moved to Chicago. Out of “s...

Virginia Evans Sybil is a small woman with black hair and dark skin, a watchful child in photographs. When we meet her (in The Correspondent...

Engraving by Joh Sartain Abigail Adams was the wife of the second president of the United States. She and her husband, John Adams, had a rel...

Mother and Child, Wade Reynolds In 1962, Veronica Troy, who is always called Ronnie, is 29. She is beautiful, like her two younger sisters, ...

Patience Gray was born in Surrey into an Edwardian home, which she found oppressive, in 1917. She got an excellent education, however, at Qu...