Amelia Edwards
English novelist and egyptologist
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Charlotte Cushman
American actress
Harriet Hosmer
American sculptor and innovator
Frances E Willard
Frances E. Willard (1839-1898) was an American educator, suffragist and temperance reformer.
Christina of Sweden
Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626-1689)
Freda Beatrice Stark
During the Second World War she entertained troops at the Wintergarden cabaret and nightclub at the Civic Theatre in Auckland, earning the nickname ‘Fever of the Fleet’.
Hildegard von Bingen
German abbess and mystic who organized a school of nurses for service in the hospitals; noted composer whose works are still performed today, as well as a brewer and herbalist who described using hops in beer.
Dr Anna Howard Shaw
Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), an American suffragist leader, minister and physician.
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.
Dr Margaret Todd
After taking her MD in Brussels in 1894, she worked as Assistant Medical Officer at the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children, and also penned further novels and short stories. She has also gained recognition among the scientific community for having proposed the word ‘isotope’.