Danielle de St. Jorre
Prominent Seychellois educator, linguist and politician. Her enduring legacy lies in her advocacy for the defense and promotion of Seychellois Creole, striving for its recognition as the national language of the Seychelles.
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Cecile O’Rahilly
Celticist and literary scholar
Mary Kate Ryan
Irish academic and political activist
Janie McCarthy
Irish WWII resistance worker and language teacher
Eibhlín Uí Choisdeailbh
Irish folksong collector, Irish language enthusiast, and political activist
Flora Sassoon
Businesswoman, philanthropist and Hebrew scholar
Toru Dutt
Bengali poet and translator
Anna Maria Van Schurman
Dutch painter, engraver, poet, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist writer known for her exceptional learning and her defense of female education.
Edith Kanakaʻole
Edith Kanaka’ole (also affectionately called “Aunty Edith”), a native Hawaiian composer, chanter and dancer, was a champion for the preservation of native Hawaiian culture and arts. Kanaka’ole lead the highly celebrated dance school, Hālau o Kekuhi, where her legacy as a Kumu Hula, or chief practitioner of traditional Hawaiian dance and culture, took flight.
Elizabeth Carter
English writer of various books of prose and verse, chiefly remembered for her admirable translation of Epictetus, the first that appear in English.