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.
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Juana Inés de la Cruz
Mexican writer and poet
Lydia Maria Child
American writer whose 1825 novel, “The Rebels, a Tale of the Revolution,” was very popular.
Marguerite of Navarre
French politician, religious reformer, literary patron, and author.
Margaret Cavendish
Duchess of Newcastle and English writer.
Frances Power Cobbe
Irish feminist, journalist, anti-vivisectionist, and philanthropist
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
The first woman to be ordained as a minister
Angélique Arnauld
French abbess and religious influence
Mary Wollstonecraft
English writer and philosopher
Harriet Martineau
English author