Gale Research, 1992. One or two page summaries of the lives and contributions of these noted women, with references for further study. Chamber's Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge University Press, 1984. A good small dictionary covering the great of all nations and all times.
Set includes cumulative and occupational indexes.
Offers brief biographical data on prominent persons throughout the world. Vernoff, Edward and Rima Shore. The International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography. New American Library, 1987. Consists of 5,650 brief biographies of notable modern men and women in almost every field of human endeavor.