Eileen Mary Challans
Mary Renault (pseudonym of Eileen Mary Challans) was a British lesbian writer best known for her widely read historical-fiction novels set in ancient Greece that gained her a large following among straight and gay readers alike.
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Angela Bolster
20th century Irish historian and nun
Anne Margaret Rowan
1800s Irish novelist, historian, and political activist
Rosa Helia Villa Guerrero
Mexican writer and historian
Annette Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven
Irish historian
Doreen Corcoran
20th century Irish local historian
Adele Chatfield-Taylor
American preservationist and arts administrator
Thelma Garcia Buchholdt
Thelma Garcia Buchholdt became the first Filipinx American legislator in the U.S. when she was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1974.
Frances Prindle Taft
Influential arts educator and Cleveland civic leader
Sibylle Mertens-Schaaffhausen
Considered to be the first female archaeologist in Germany