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In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re publishing a series of features about women in history whose lives we think would make for amazing television. Read more in the series here. Eleanor of Aquitaine was the most powerful, wealthiest, most eligible woman in the Middle High Ages. Born in 1122, during her lifetime she was Queen Consort to both France …

In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re publishing a series of features about women in history whose lives we think would make for amazing television. Read more in the series here. Elizabeth Jane Cochran was born on May 5, 1864 in the now defunct small town of Cochran’s Mill, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When she was a little girl, …

In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re publishing a series of features about women in history whose lives we think would make for amazing television. Read more in the series here. In 1872, the Equal Rights Party nominated Victoria Woodhull for President, with abolitionist Frederick Douglass as her running mate, but her radical views and personal scandal proved too difficult …