Elsie Lincoln Benedict
American lecturer and writer on psychology
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Elsie Lincoln Benedict (née Vandegrift; November 2, 1885 – February 5, 1970), also known as 'The Wonder Woman', was advertised as the world's best known lecturer during the 1920s and 1930s, speaking to over 3 million people in her lifetime and writing on what Napoleon Hill and Dale Carnegie and a long list of men would do later. Renowned for her collegiate debate skills, emerged as a key figure in the national suffrage movement being personally recruited by Carrie Chapman Catt for national suffrage advocacy as the second-highest paid American suffragist leader. She would later take to the worldwide stage promoting the law of attraction through her many free and paid lecture series. She was the founder of Brainology, a famous course on scientific mind training.
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