Hélène Bertaux
French sculptor, founder and president of the Society of Woman Painters and Sculptors, and for fifteen years was a member of the jury on sculpture in the Society of French Artists.
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Louise Michel
French anarchist agitator, called the Red Virgin of Montmartre
Bertha von Suttner
Austrian novelist, especially known for her efforts to promote peace.
Elisabeth of Wied
Queen of Romania, known as “Carmen Sylva”, a poet and novelist who fostered the higher education of women in Romania
Mary Ashton Livermore
Journalist, Philanthropist, and Lecturer
Helen Hunt Jackson
Writer, poet and advocate for native Americans
Dora d’Istria
Romanian author, translator feminist, painter, scholar and mountaineer
Elizabeth Hamilton
Irish writer
Ouida
English novelist and animal rights advocate
Rūmātiki Ruth Wright
Fostered Māori pre-school education by setting up playcentres and reviving other community organisations in rural centres. The playcentres in the Waikato–Maniapoto district were among the first to encourage use of the Māori language, foreshadowing the kohanga reo scheme.