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It appeared before Fox Talbot 's The Pencil of Nature, 1844-6, which does not therefore, technically, deserve being called, as it sometimes is, the first photobook. But his work, unlike Atkins's, was commercially...

MA became an iconic figure during her lifetime, symbolizing the struggle of the excluded for recognition, and eventually the reconciliation of Americans black and white. In February 2011 she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom...

Another indication of her popularity in the US is that one of the oldest libraries in New York City, founded in 1886, was named in her honour as the Aguilar Library ; it is now...

Not until 1998 were any of VA 's letters published. In that year about a third of the huge correspondence exchanged between her and her longtime lover was published as I'll Stand By You: Selected...