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Lucinda Hinsdale Stone

Pioneering American feminist, educator, and social reformerof the 1800s

Clara Byrd Baker

American educator and community leader

Faustina the Elder

Faustina married the future emperor Antoninus Pius between 110 and 115.

Shirley Graham Du Bois

African-American writer, composer, educator, and civil rights activist

Blanche Armwood

African-American educator, lawyer, and civil rights activist

Agnes Ballard

American architect and educator, the first female registered architect in Florida and one of the first women to be elected to a public office in Florida

Not only was she one of Britain’s first ‘police women’, she was also a pioneering teacher of deaf children, and a passionate suffragette determined to change women’s lives for the better.Hare’s vision for auditory/oral education. In her will Mary Hare wrote ‘my efforts on behalf of the Deaf have been my greatest joy in life.’

Marian Frost

Librarian who convinced Andrew Carnegie to pay for a library in Worthing (UK)

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.

Isabel Le Brun de Pinochet

Founder of the Lyceum Le Brun de Pinochet, a Chilean school for girls, in the year 1875.