George Eliot
Famed English novelist
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Germaine de Staël
French novelist, salon host and philosopher
Stéphanie Félicité
French writer and educator
Héloïse
Immortalised by Rouseau and made famous by her unfortunate love for Abelard.
Anne Dacier
Anne Dacier (1654-1720) was one of the most accomplished scholars in France.
Madeleine de Scudéry
Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) was one of the most famous French novelists of her time.
Wanda Szmielew
Wanda Szmielew was a Polish mathematical logician who first proved the decidability of the first-order theory of abelian groups.
Sophie Germain
Sophie Germain made a major contributions to number theory (in particular, the theory of primes), acoustics and elasticity.
Dorothy Maud Wrinch
Dorothy Maud Wrinch was an Argentinian-English-American mathematician and biochemist famous for her use of mathematical techniques to deduce protein structure.
Christina of Sweden
Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626-1689)