Anna Brownell Jameson
Irish-English writer, feminist, and art historian
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Dawn Langley Simmons
One of the first individuals to receive gender-affirming surgery in the United States, Simmons was also well-known in Charleston society for her marriage to John Paul Simmons. Theirs was reportedly the first documented interracial marriage in South Carolina.
Marianne Roland Michel
Scholar and catalogues raisonnés compiler; dealer of eighteenth-century French art; director of the Galerie Cailleux from 1982-1996
Aleida Betsy Loosjes-Terpstra
Modernist art historian
Ada Louise Huxtable
Architectural historian and first permanent architecture critic for the New York Times.
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin
First woman to direct a major American art museum (Baltimore Museum of Art)
Aenne Liebreich
Academic specialist in medieval Burgundian sculpture, particularly Claus Sluter, as well as medieval painting and illumination and costume studies.
Dr Agnes Rindge Claflin
Vassar Professor of Art and Director of the Vassar Art Gallery.
Hrotsvitha von Gandersheim
Religious poet and nun
Zhangsun
Esteemed Chinese empress who dedicated her life to serving as a stabilizing force and wise advisor within the imperial court.