Janggyeong
Queen Janggyeong was the second queen consort and was the spouse of Yi Yeok, King Jungjong, the 11th ruler of the Joseon dynasty, from 1507 until her passing in 1515.
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Betty Guard
Australian settler of New Zealand
Elizabeth Mackay
1800s New Zealand homemaker
Lucy Walter
Welsh noblewoman, the first mistress of King Charles II of England and mother of James, Duke of Monmouth.
Molly Whuppie
The giant’s wife begged that Molly would take her up into the sack till she would see what Molly saw. So Molly took the shears and cut a hole in the sack, and took out the needle and thread with her, and jumped down and helped, the giant’s wife up into the sack, and sewed up the hole.
Margaret McArthur
Annie Margaret MacArthur was the first woman to gain tenure in an Anthropology Department in an Australian university when she was appointed lecturer at the University of Sydney in 1965.
Phyllis Mary Kaberry
Phyllis Kaberry was the first Australian woman to be recognised as a fully trained and qualified anthropologist. She achieved several other ‘firsts’ along the way: she was the first female Australian anthropologist to complete doctoral work, which she did at the London School of Economics in 1938, and the first who took a particularly woman-focused approach to her field work and theories.