Maria Edgeworth

Irish novelist, whose stories represent a distinct stop in the development of fiction in English and are progenitors of similar productions including Sir Walter Scott’s novels of Scottish life.

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Emma Hart Willard

Leader in the American movement for the higher education of women, founder of the Troy Female Seminary, and active in the great national revival of common schools in the United States.

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Louisa Lawson

Louisa Lawson was an outstanding leader in the campaign for women’s right in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Hélène Bertaux

French sculptor, founder and president of the Society of Woman Painters and Sculptors, and for fifteen years was a member of the jury on sculpture in the Society of French Artists.

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