Rajani Thiranagama
Sri Lankan Tamil human rights activist, feminist, and academic, best known for her work in exposing human rights abuses during the Sri Lankan Civil War.
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Georgie Yeats
Irish scholar, occultist, publisher, and wife of William Butler Yeats
Marian Frost
Librarian who convinced Andrew Carnegie to pay for a library in Worthing (UK)
Flora Sassoon
Businesswoman, philanthropist and Hebrew scholar
Caroline Pichler
Austrian author and playwright
Isabella Theotoki Albrizzi
Greek author
Izabela Czartoryska
Writer and philanthropist who made Pulawy the center of literary and political life in Poland.
Hortensia von Moos
She wrote on many and varied subjects,including the structure of the human body; disease, its cause and cure; the care and raising of children; tea, coffee, chocolate, and geology.
Mariquita Sánchez
Argentine activist and salon host
Manuela Sanz de Santamaría
Colombian scholar and writer