Fanny Crosby
Blind song writer who wrote more than 2500 hymns besides many secular songs, cantatas, and lyrical productions of various kinds.
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Peggy Glanville-Hicks
The 1950s brought Glanville-Hicks to prominence as a composer of ‘exotic’ music and as a catalyst for the performance of new music.
Helen Keller
Undeterred by deafness and blindness, Helen Keller rose to become a major 20th century humanitarian, educator and writer. She advocated for the blind and for women’s suffrage and co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union.
Dr Elizabeth Blackwell
The first woman in America to receive a medical degree, Elizabeth Blackwell championed the participation of women in the medical profession and ultimately opened her own medical college for women.