Margaret Avis
Letter writer and source of local history information
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Patience Lovell Wright
American sculptor and spy
Barbara Bodichon
An artist, social reformer, women’s rights campaigner and co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge, Barbara Bodichon challenged the status quo from day one.
Alison Lapper
British mouth and foot painter
Corona Schröter
German singer and composer
Tina Blau
Austrian artist
Tirzah Garwood
In a perfect world, Tirzah Garwood (1908 – 1951) would be a household name and acknowledged as one of the most original and distinctive figures of twentieth century British art. Instead, as a mother of three children and the wife of the much more famous Eric Ravilious, she is often confined to the shadows of art’s story.
Anna Waser
Swiss painter
Anna Dorothea Therbusch
A leading German portrait painter of 1700s
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.