Edith Lyttleton
The author of a dozen novels and many scores of short stories that were widely read in New Zealand during the first four decades of the twentieth century
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Winnifred Train
New Zealand army and civilian nurse, hospital matron, and nurses’ association leader
Julienne du Guesclin
French war heroine
Thusnelda
Germanic Cheruscan noblewoman who was captured by the Roman general Germanicus during his invasion of Germania.
Dr Irena Białówna
In 1943, Dr. Irena Białówna was arrested by the Gestapo for her work in the underground resistance movement.
Rokhl Auerbakh
Polish-Jewish writer, escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and worked as a Polish secretary on the Aryan side, leveraging her non-Jewish appearance and German fluency.
Agnès Humbert
French art historian and ethnographer Agnès Humbert was also a member of the French Resistance during World War II.
Jane Cowley
Irish Sister of Mercy, Boer war nurse, and educator
Mary Francis Bridgeman
Irish Sister of Mercy, educator, and Crimean war nurse
Khawlah bint al-Azwar
Arabian heroine, who, in the famous battle of the Yermonks, between the Greeks and the Arabs, in the seventh century, rallied the Arabs, when they were driven back by the furious onset of their assailants, and, with several other of the chief women, took the command of the army.