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Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial grouping of current and former women's colleges in the northeastern United States.Wellesley contains 56 departmental and interdepartmental majors spanning the liberal arts, as well as over 150 student clubs and organizations. Wellesley athletes compete in the NCAA Division III New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference. Its 500-acre (200 ha) campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and houses the Davis Museum and a Botanic Garden. Notable alumnae and affiliates include two U.S. secretaries of state; the first female nominee for President of the United States from a major party; noted academics, journalists, writers, politicians, diplomats, activists, businesspeople, filmmakers, and entertainers; and recipients of Emmy, Tony, Academy, and Peabody Awards, the Nobel Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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- Jo Duffy
- Madeleine Albright
- Nora Ephron
- Edith Abbott
- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
- Lisa Alther
- Bing Xin
- Nayantara Sahgal
- Judith Krantz
- Nancy Friday
- Janet Asimov
- Hillary Clinton
- Jean Merrill
- Margaret B. Freeman
- Margaret Clay Ferguson
- Connie Guion
- Malinda Lo
- Kerala J. Snyder
- Mary Attaway Lee
- Mildred Savage
- Molly Bang
- Naomi Weisstein
- Susan Estrich
- Susan Sheehan
- Winifred Goldring
- Eloise Lownsbery
- Monica Byrne
- Katharine Lee Bates
- Lisa Kleypas
- Santha Rama Rau
- Angelina Weld Grimké
- Marcia Davenport
- Harriet Adams
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- Diane Ravitch
- Helen Abbot Merrill
- Helen Hooven Santmyer
- Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
- Hillary Jordan
- Jana Riess
- Janet Cox-Rearick Waldman
- Onyeka Onwenu
- Muriel Bacheler
- Charlotte Fitch Roberts
- Linda Dowling
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