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Lillian Gish

American actress (1893–1993)

Lillian Diana Gish^[1] (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American actress. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent filmshorts, to 1987. Gish was dubbed the "First Lady of the Screen" by Vanity Fair in 1927^[2] and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques.^[3] In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gish as the 17th-greatest female movie star of Classic Hollywood cinema.^[4]

Having acted on stage with her sister as a child, Gish was a prominent film star from 1912 into the 1920s, being particularly associated with the films of director D. W. Griffith. This included her leading role in the highest-grossing film of the silent era, Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). Her other major films and performances from the silent era included Intolerance (1916), Broken Blossoms (1919), Way Down East (1920), Orphans of the Storm (1921), La Bohème (1926), and The Wind (1928).

At the dawn of the sound era, she returned to the

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Lillian S. Robinson, feminist scholar and activist, died on September 20, 2006 in the Montréal General Hospital at the age of 65. The cause was ovarian cancer. Robinson, Principal (Director) of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and Professor of Women’s Studies at Concordia University at the time, was the author of six scholarly books and a novel.

Lillian Sara Robinson was born April 18, 1941 in New York City. Her father Irving Robinson, a Jewish immigrant from Czernowitz, Bukovina, was a foreman in a picture frame factory. Her mother Fannie Robinson, born of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, was a bookkeeper. Her father died when she was four and in December 1946 Lillian, her older brother Edward and her sister Frieda and their mother moved into an apartment in Queens, New York with their mother’s twin sister Jennie Postman and her husband Irving Postman. Their daughter Sydelle, born shortly afterwards, would become Lillian’s surrogate sister.

Studies

After attending Hunter College High School, Lillian was awarded a scholarship to Brown University where she received a joint A.B

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Lillian Wald

American nurse, humanitarian activist, and author (1867–1940)

Lillian Wald
Wald c.1905-1940
Born	(1867-03-10)March 10, 1867 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Died	September 1, 1940(1940-09-01) (aged 73) Westport, Connecticut, U.S.
Resting place	Mount Hope Cemetery Rochester, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	New York Hospital Training School for Nurses
Occupation(s)	Nurse, humanitarian, activist
Known for	Founding the Henry Street Settlement; nursing pioneer, advocacy for the poor

Lillian D. Wald (March 10, 1867 – September 1, 1940^[1]) was an American nurse, humanitarian and author. She strove for human rights and started American community nursing.^[2] She founded the Henry Street Settlement in New York City and was an early advocate for nurses in public schools.

After growing up in Ohio and New York, Wald became a nurse. She briefly attended medical school and began to teach community health classes. After founding the Henry Street Settlement, she became an activist for the rights of women and minoriti