Susanna Dickinson
Susanna Dickinson became famous for her first-hand account of what happened during the 13-day siege of the Alamo and the Battle of the Alamo
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Octavia Minor
Octavia Minor (circa 69 BCE to 11 BCE) was a Roman noblewoman who rose to prominence during the early years of the Roman Empire.
Roxanne
Wife of Alexander the Great
Peggy Eaton
The Petticoat affair, also called the Eaton affair, was a political scandal that rocked Washington, D.C., from 1829 to 1831, during the early years of Andrew Jackson’s presidency. Revolving around the rumored sexual promiscuity of Peggy Eaton, wife of the US secretary of war, the affair divided Jackson’s cabinet and reshuffled the leadership of the fledgling Democratic Party.
Clarissa Davis
Clarissa Davis (later known as Mary D. Armstead) dressed as a man to evade slave-catchers and others, and traveled in a chest aboard a ship from Virginia to Pennsylvania to win her freedom.
Lear Green
Lear Green (circa 1839-1860) was an enslaved African American woman in Baltimore, Maryland, who had herself shipped in a chest to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to escape slavery.
Aud the Deep-Minded
9th-century Norse royal who fled to Iceland and settled there
Cassandane Shahbanu
Cassandane was the wife of Cyrus the Great (r. c. 550-530 BCE), founder of the Achaemenid Empire (c. 550-330 BCE).
Megilla
The love affair of Leaena and Megilla is referenced in the Dialogues of the Courtesans in the 2nd century BCE
Anna Maria Weems
Anna Maria Weems (circa 1840 to circa 1863) was an enslaved African American woman in Rockville, Maryland, who escaped by posing as a young Black livery man and carriage driver, assisted by the Underground Railroad, in September 1855.