Dorothe Engelbretsdatter
Norwegian author who principally wrote hymns and strongly religious poems and is often considered the first female professional writer.
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Sarah Allen
American abolitionist and missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church.
Dr Mattie E Coleman
Trailblazing African American physician and community leader
Jennie Dean
Prominent African American educator and church founder in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Gretta Cousins
Irish suffragist, educator, and theosophist
Jane Deans
New Zealand pioneer and community leader
Mercedes Castellanos de Anchorena
Argentine aristocrat and philanthropist.
Maria de Dominici
Nun, painter, and sculptor, known for breaking gender barriers in a field dominated by men in the world of Baroque art and a trailblazer for women in the arts during the 17th century.
Ann Fletcher Jackson
English Quaker evangelist in New Zealand
Amalia von Dyhrn
Prussian aristocrat, businesswoman and philanthropist