cool dead women

Edith Nesbit

June Jordan, Miriam Makeba, Muriel Rukeyser (Protest Edition)

Elma Napier

Elma Napier

Una Marson

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Jeannette Rankin

Sophie Blanchard

Lucia Pamela

Hannah Szenes

Hannah Szenes, Haviva Reik, and Sara Braverman: The Jewish Parachutists of Mandate Palestine

Dr Leila Denmark

Belle da Costa Greene

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Mother and daughter.

Ellen Terry and Edith Craig

Edna St. Vincent Millay

A young Leonie, ready to clean some teeth.

Leonie von Zesch

Lillian with her beloved poodle, Turk, who accompanied her around the world.

Lillian Nordica

The only photo of Alice in existence.

Alice Ball

Connie Converse

Betty Pack

Dare Wright

Jean Rhys

Marian Newhall Horwitz O’Brien