María del Carmen Millán
Mexican literature was the enduring passion of María del Carmen Millán (1914-1982). She taught it in her lectures, explored it in her writings, and promoted it in the collective works and collections she edited.
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Guadalupe Dueñas
Mexican novelist
Ethel Jessie Bowe
Australian army matron-in-chief, army nurse and nurse educator.
Dorothy Durdin
Joan Durdin, author of They Became Nurses: A History of Nursing in South Australia, 1836-1980 (1991) and Eleven Thousand Nurses: A History of Nursing Education at the Royal Adelaide Hospital 1889-1993 (1999) is a nursing historian and as a nurse educator has contributed much to the advancement of nursing through the development of advanced education in the higher education sector.
Catherine Mahon
President of the Irish National Teachers Organisation
Diana Dyason
Diana Dyason was Reader in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne 1965-1984 and Head of Department 1965-1974.
Naomi Chapman Woodroof
Naomi Chapman Woodroof was the first woman student and first woman graduate of the University of Idaho College of Agriculture, and one of the first two women in the United States to hold a degree in agriculture. She was the first woman scientist at the Georgia Experiment Station and the first state-employed plant pathologist at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station (later University of Georgia Tifton campus).
Julia Flisch
Julia Flisch was an advocate for young women’s rights, education, and independence. She strove to advance the cause of women’s higher education in Georgia (US state) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Emily Barnelia Woodward
Emily Woodward was a prominent female journalist in the early twentieth-century Southern US who became an outspoken advocate of liberal causes.
Helen A Whiting
Whiting worked hard to promote African American education and to improve classroom conditions in 1930s and ’40s Georgia (US state).