Millicent Garrett Fawcett
British suffragist
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Helene Lange
Leader of the Teachers’ Association in Germany in the 1890s who founded courses for women to help them get into universities and edited Die Frau, a magazine for women.
Gina Krog
A leader of the Norwegian feminist movement and editor of Nylænde.
Iordana Nikolaeva Filaretova
Bulgarian who cared for the needy
Florence E Allen
The first female state supreme court judge in the US and one of the first two women federal judges.
Klementyna Hofmanowa
Polish educator, scholar and writer
Karolina Světlá
Czech feminist and author
Isabel Le Brun de Pinochet
Founder of the Lyceum Le Brun de Pinochet, a Chilean school for girls, in the year 1875.
Isabel Calvimontes
She was a heroine of civil life during a period when the conditions in Argentina were chaotic.
Hortensia von Moos
She wrote on many and varied subjects,including the structure of the human body; disease, its cause and cure; the care and raising of children; tea, coffee, chocolate, and geology.