Margaret Clay Ferguson
American botanist who became the first female President of the Botanical Society of America in 1929
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Elsie de Wolfe
American actress and decorator
Gene Stratton-Porter
American author and ornithologist
Jane Grey Swisshelm
American journalist, anti-slavery agitator and war nurse
Dr Katharine Jeannette Bush
American zoologist
Edith Cavell
English war-nurse, head of a nurses’ training school in Brussels, where she attended German as well as Allied soldiers during the European War. In August 1915, she was accused by the German military authorities of Belgium of assisting prisoners to escape, and in October was condemned to be shot by a firing squad of German soldiers.
Elizabeth Carter
English writer of various books of prose and verse, chiefly remembered for her admirable translation of Epictetus, the first that appear in English.
Dora Keen
American traveler, mountain climber and writer
Dr Anita Newcomb McGee
American physician and army nurse
Anna Bartlett Warner
American novelist, who wrote under the pseudonym of Amy Lothrop