Freda Du Faur

Du Faur is significant as the best amateur climber of her day and as the first woman to take up high climbing in New Zealand

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Sophia Jex-Blake

In 1886 she opened the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, of which she was dean until her retirement in 1899. She is the author of American Schools and Colleges, Medical Women and Care of Infants.

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Sappho

Sappho, (flourished about 600 B.C.) a Greek poet, native of Lesbos, where she was head of a great poetic school, for poetry in that age and place was cultivated as assiduously and apparently as successfully by women as by men.

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