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Hazare, Anna

(Encyclopedia) Hazare, Anna, 1937–, Indian social activist, b. Kisan Baburao Hazare. He served (1963–75) in the army then, inspired by the teachings of Vivekananda, devoted himself to social causes.…

Anna Leopoldovna

(Encyclopedia) Anna LeopoldovnaAnna Leopoldovnaänˈnə [key]Anna Leopoldovnalyāˌəpôlˈdəvnə [key] or Anna KarlovnaAnna Karlovnakärˈləvnə [key], 1718–46, duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, regent of…

Held, Anna

(Encyclopedia) Held, Anna, 1873?–1918, American musical comedy actress, b. Paris. She is remembered for her beauty and charm and for her tempestuous off-stage life. After she had small singing and…

Freud, Anna

(Encyclopedia) Freud, AnnaFreud, Annafroid [key], 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, b. Vienna, Austria. Continuing the work of her father, Sigmund Freud, she was a pioneer in the psychoanalysis of…

Dewdney, Anna

(Encyclopedia) Dewdney, Anna, 1965–2016, American children's book author and illustrator, b. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., as Anna Elizabeth Luhrmann, B.A. Wellesley, 1987. After illustrating adult and…

Akhmatova, Anna

(Encyclopedia) Akhmatova, AnnaAkhmatova, Annaänˈnə əkhmäˈtəvə [key], pseud. of Anna Andreyevna GorenkoAnna Andreyevna Gorenkoəndrāˈəvnə gôryĕngˈkô [key], 1888–1966, Russian poet of the Acmeist school…

Seghers, Anna

(Encyclopedia) Seghers, AnnaSeghers, Annaäˈnä sēgərs [key], 1900–1983, German novelist, whose original name was Netty Reiling Rádvanyi. She won fame with her first novel of social protest, The Revolt…

Seward, Anna

(Encyclopedia) Seward, AnnaSeward, Annasēˈwərd [key], 1742–1809, English poet, called the Swan of Lichfield. A member of the Lichfield literary group, which included Thomas Day and Erasmus Darwin,…

Sewell, Anna

(Encyclopedia) Sewell, AnnaSewell, Annas&oomacr;ˈəl [key], 1820–78, English author. Her only work, Black Beauty (1877), the story of a horse, became a children's classic and has gone into many…

Bijns, Anna

(Encyclopedia) Bijns, AnnaBijns, Annaäˈnä bīns [key], 1494?–1575?, Flemish poet of Antwerp. Her three volumes (1528, 1548, 1567) of lyric verse place her among the foremost Dutch poets of her age.…