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Emma Hart Willard

Leader in the American movement for the higher education of women, founder of the Troy Female Seminary, and active in the great national revival of common schools in the United States.

Scottish philanthropist who helped establish the Society for the Relief of Poor Widows, the Orphan Asylum Society, the Society for promoting Industry among the Poor, and the first Sunday School for Ignorant Adults.

Maria Edgeworth

Irish novelist, whose stories represent a distinct stop in the development of fiction in English and are progenitors of similar productions including Sir Walter Scott’s novels of Scottish life.

Elizabeth Storrs Mead

President of Mount Holyoke Seminary and College.

Philippa of Hainault

Founder of Queen’s College, Oxford

Elisabeth of Wied

Queen of Romania, known as “Carmen Sylva”, a poet and novelist who fostered the higher education of women in Romania

Kiyo Minijima

Japanese businesswoman and philanthropist

Stéphanie Félicité

French writer and educator

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.