Maude Adams
American early film actress
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Juana Inés de la Cruz
Mexican writer and poet
Eve Evans
School Secretary at the London School of Economics for 34 years.
Margaret Lambert
Historian Margaret Lambert gained a PhD in international relations at LSE in the 1930s and after the war spent much of her career as an editor-in-chief at the Foreign Office, specialising in contemporary German history.
Amaza Lee Meredith
Despite being prevented from a career as a professional architect as an African-American woman in the early and mid-1900s, Amaza Lee Meredith left a legacy through her work.
Flora Murray
British doctor and suffragette during the early 20th century
Maureen Colquhoun
Women’s rights activist and former Labour Member of Parliament for Northampton North
Eileen Power
British economic historian
Veronica Wedgwood
Despite never holding an academic post Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood was a well known and respected historian and public intellectual.
Bessie Smith
Acknowledged as one of the greatest blues singers of the twentieth century, Bessie Smith reigned as the “Empress of the Blues” throughout most of the 1920s.