Mary Putnam Jacobi
American physician Mary Putnam Jacobi was the first woman to graduate from the New York College of Pharmacy, and the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris.
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Catherine Booth
English preacher, known as the Mother of the Salvation Army.
Sara Jane Lippincott
Journalist and serial writer known as Grace Greenwood
Mary Louise Booth
American journalist and translator of important French works.
Lina Morgenstern
German social reformer. At eighteen she had organized a league to aid poor school children, and after her marriage to Dr. Morgenstern she founded the Berlin Kindergarten Association, of which she was president from 1860 – 1866.
Ellen Key
Swedish social and ethical writer
Olive Schreiner
English-South African writer
Annie Smith Peck
American mountain climber and suffragist
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
American philanthropist and author known for her temperance reform, and in behalf of the advancement of women.
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
Author and war-time lecturer