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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

Dr Christiane Tonaillon

Austrian writer and educator

Helen Major

Helen Major was an amateur historian and an active volunteer at the Mills Archive.

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.

When Alice Candy began teaching at Canterbury College, the academic staff was, with one exception (Elizabeth Herriott, biology), entirely male. She gradually acquired the unofficial status of dean of women – and an influence on college life well above her junior academic status.

Eve Logan

In 1977, Evelyn took up an administration post with the Family Practitioner Committee for Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority, and over the next few years quickly rose through the ranks to become the Deputy Registrar.