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Elizabeth Wright (writer)
Elizabeth Wright may refer to: *Elizabeth Wright (artist) (born 1964), English artist *Elizabeth Wright (educator) (1876–1963), founder of Connecticut College *Elizabeth Wright (swimmer) (born 1979), Australian Paralympian *Elizabeth Wright Hubbard (1896–1967), American physician and homeopath *Elizabeth Wright (architect) (1922–2013), American architect; granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright *Elizabeth Evelyn Wright (1872–1909), founded Denmark Industrial Institute *Elizabeth Mary Wright (1863–1958), linguist and folklorist *Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright (born 1966), American translator *Betty Wright (1953–2020), American singer *Betsey Wright Betsey Ross Wright (born July 4, 1943) is an American lobbyist, activist, and political consultant who worked more than a decade for Bill Clinton in Arkansas.Baquet (1994)Gambrell (2009)Linn (2009) She served as chief of staff to Governor Clint ... (born 1943), American activist See also * Lizz Wright (born 1980), American jazz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Wright (artist)
Elizabeth Wright (born 1964, London) is an English sculptor and installation artist. Wright exhibited at the 1995 Venice Biennale. Two of her works, a sculpture of a bicycle called ''B.S.A. Tour of Britain Racer Enlarged to 135%'' (1996/7) and a print entitled ''Snowball'' (2000) Tate.org.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2014. are in the collection of the . Notable exhibitions * , London, 1995 - Wright presented a mixture of domestic and work environments, modelling the objects in unusual sizes, des ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Wright (educator)
Elizabeth C. Wright (November 14, 1876 – February 23, 1963) was one of the founders of Connecticut College (formerly Connecticut College for Women). She served as the first Secretary of the college from 1910 to 1921 and as the college's bursar from 1917 to 1943. Early life Wright was born on November 14, 1876, in Hartford, Connecticut. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in 1897 where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. and went on to teach at Portland (CT) High School and Hartford Public High School. Founding Connecticut College In 1872, Wesleyan University began what was known as the "Wesleyan Experiment", allowing women to take classes at the College. Four women matriculated that fall, and it was the first time in the Connecticut region that a woman stayed enrolled in classes beyond her first term. Male alumni, though, were concerned that the College would become populated only by women, and that the College was less prestigious wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Wright (swimmer)
Elizabeth Wright (born 9 November 1979) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer who won one bronze at the 1996 Summer Paralympics and a bronze and silver at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. She also has a Master of Philosophy in fine arts (photography). Early life Wright was born on 9 November 1979, and is from the New South Wales town of Cooranbong. She was born with a congenital limb deficiency. Her right arm is missing at the elbow, her right leg is "severely shortened" requiring the use of a prosthesis and she is lacking two fingers and the forearm bone of her left hand. Swimming career Wright's swimming career at the highest level lasted for seven years. Her classification during this time was S6. She swam for the Gosford Amateur Swimming Club. and was a New South Wales Institute of Sport swimmer. She attended the opening of the Wesley Mission's Mangrove Mountain Retreat swimming pool. At the 1996 Atlanta Games she won a bronze medal in the Women's 50 m Butterfly S6 event. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Wright Hubbard
Elizabeth Wright Hubbard (February 18, 1896 – May 22, 1967) was an American physician and homeopath best known for leadership and editorial work in the field of homeopathy. Biography Hubbard was born in New York City, the daughter of Rev. Dr. Merle St. Croix Wright, the pastor of Harlem Unitarian Church. She was educated at the Horace Mann School and graduated from Barnard College in 1917, and in 1921 earned an MD from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, as one of the first six females to do so. She completed her internship at Bellevue Hospital. She then spent two years in Europe studying homeopathy in Stuttgart, Vienna, under Adolf Stiegele, in Geneva under Pierre Schmidt, and in Tübingen under Emil Schlegel. Hubbard subsequently assumed leadership roles as president of the International Hahnemannian Association from 1945 to 1946, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy from 1959 to 1961. She served as editor of the ''Homoeopathic Recorder'', the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Wright (architect)
Elizabeth Wright Ingraham (1922 – September 15, 2013) was an American architect and educator. A granddaughter of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, she studied under his tutelage at his Taliesin studio at age 15. She later established an architect's practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with her husband, Gordon Ingraham, which adhered to Wright's architectural styles. In 1970 she formed her own architectural firm, Elizabeth Wright Ingraham and Associates, which she led until her retirement in 2007. She is credited with the design of approximately 150 buildings in Colorado Springs and other western locales. She also founded and directed the Wright-Ingraham Institute, which invites students and visiting faculty to conferences and workshops on environmental issues. She was posthumously inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2014. Early life and education Elizabeth Wright was born in 1922 in Oak Park, Illinois, to John Lloyd Wright, an architect, and his second wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Evelyn Wright
Elizabeth Evelyn Wright (April 3, 1872 – December 14, 1906) founded Denmark Industrial Institute in Denmark, South Carolina, as a school for African-American youth. It is present-day Voorhees College, a historically black college Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community. Mo ... (HBCU). She was a humanitarian and educator, founding several schools for black children. Early life and education Wright was born on April 3, 1872, in rural Talbotton, Georgia. Her father, John Wesley Wright, was an African-American carpenter. Her mother, Virginia Rolfe, was a Cherokee woman. Wright went to a school held in a church basement. In 1888, she matriculated at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Institute as a night student. After two years, Wright moved to Hampton Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Mary Wright
Elizabeth Mary Wright (10 October 1863 – 1958) was an English linguist and folklorist. Biography Elizabeth Mary Lea was born in the East End of London on 10 October 1863, the eldest daughter of an Anglican clergyman. After a year in Somerset, the family moved in 1873 to Tedstone Delamere in Herefordshire. After a period at boarding school Elizabeth lived at home "a very easy and pleasant life, though uneventful and rather useless", until Sophie Weisse, the older sister of her brother's schoolfriend, encouraged her to "aim at more profitable employment of my time and such talents as I possessed." At her father's suggestion she applied to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she was accepted, matriculating in October 1887. She first encountered Joseph Wright in her second year at Lady Margaret Hall, when she attended his Old English lectures. During her third year, he enquired about her willingness "to do eventually some original work" and she subsequently worked under him to prepa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright
Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright (born ''Elizabeth (Ann) Oehlkers'' on October 3, 1966) is an American translator. Biography Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright translates texts of contemporary German authors, especially lyric poetry, into English. In 1996 she received a MFA for literary translation at the University of Arkansas. From September 1994 till July 1995 during an academic year in Berlin she had been translating, amongst others, the German-Turkish poets Zafer Şenocak and Zehra Çırak. After that she worked as a lecturer in Arkansas, and gave seminars at Boston University and at Oberlin College. Together with Zafer Şenocak she had bilingual readings in Memphis, New York City, Cambridge, San Francisco und Los Angeles. She received several awards and research fellowships like NEA and ALTA. Her translations appear in ''Agni'', ''Slope'', ''Seneca Review'', ''Another Chicago Magazine'' and in the online magazine ''Perihelion''. In 1999 Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright married Franz Wrigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Wright
Bessie Regina Norris (December 21, 1953 – May 10, 2020), better known by her stage name Betty Wright, was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter and background vocalist. Beginning her professional career in the late 1960s as a teenager, Wright rose to fame in the 1970s with hits such as " Clean Up Woman" and "Tonight Is the Night". Wright was also prominent in her use of whistle register. Biography Early life and career Born in Miami, Florida, as Bessie Regina Norris on December 21, 1953, Wright was the youngest of seven children of Rosa Akins Braddy-Wright and her second husband, McArthur Norris. Wright began her professional career at the age of two when her siblings formed the Echoes of Joy, a gospel group. Wright contributed to vocals on the group's first album, released in 1956. Wright and her siblings performed together until 1965, when she was 11 years old. Following the group's break-up, Wright, who was already using the name Betty Wright, decided to switch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betsey Wright
Betsey Ross Wright (born July 4, 1943) is an American lobbyist, activist, and political consultant who worked more than a decade for Bill Clinton in Arkansas.Baquet (1994)Gambrell (2009)Linn (2009) She served as chief of staff to Governor Clinton for seven years. As deputy chair of the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign, Wright established the rapid response system that was responsible for defending Clinton's record in Arkansas and promptly answering all personal attacks on the candidate.Cole, Castro (1992) During the 1992 campaign, Wright coined the term " bimbo eruptions" to describe rumors alleging extramarital affairs by Clinton. In the 1990s, Wright was an executive for the Wexler Group, a lobbying firm in Washington, D.C. She currently resides in Rogers, Arkansas. Early life Wright was born July 4, 1943, in Alpine, Texas.Reynolds (2009) She attended Alpine High School and received her higher education at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with a B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
