Harriet Martineau
English author
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Emily Faithfull
English philanthropist who took a great interest in the conditions of working women
Emily James Smith Putnam
American author and educator
Fanny Bullock Workman
American mountain-climber and explorer of the late 1800s
Emmeline Pankhurst
Lader of the militant wing of the English suffrage movement.
Sara Yorke Stevenson
American archaeologist; first woman to receive a Sc.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Alva Belmont
American philanthropist and woman suffrage leader
Carrie Burnham Kilgore
The first woman admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania
Dr Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier
Dr Lozier graduated (1853) at the Syracuse Medical College, and began to practice in New York City, where she had great success as a surgeon.
Mary Putnam Jacobi
American physician Mary Putnam Jacobi was the first woman to graduate from the New York College of Pharmacy, and the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris.