Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
Author and war-time lecturer
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Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler
Swedish realistic novelist and dramatist
Charlotte Brontë
English novelist, the author of Jane Eyre
Amelia Edwards
English novelist and egyptologist
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.