... 1566 Sir Robert Peel Prime Minister London 1850 Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree British theatrical actor-manager London 1917 Amelia Earhart pioneer aviator disappeared whilst flying 1937 Ernest Hemingway novelist and journalist For Whom the Bell Tolls suicide ...

... yourself” These are just four of the women selected for inclusion with others such as Sue Ryder Beatrix Potter Virginia Woolf Amelia Earhart Clare Francis Marie Curie and Mother Teresa Inevitably the book is also a social comment on the gradual emergence of women ...

... Germany 1864 Lord Dunsany short-story writer London 1878 Ernst Bloch American composer Sacred Service Switzerland 1880 Amelia Earhart pioneer aviator Kansas 1898 DIED Sacha Guitry actor playwright and film director The Story of a Cheat France 1957 ‘I feel ...