Elza Žiglevica
Member of the Latvian Women’s Auxiliary Corps, which provided food for the thousands of troops during WWI, who died bringing soldiers food
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Eliza Orzeszkowa
Belarussian/Polish author
Eliška Krásnohorská
Czech patriotic poet
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
British suffragist
Helene Lange
Leader of the Teachers’ Association in Germany in the 1890s who founded courses for women to help them get into universities and edited Die Frau, a magazine for women.
Gina Krog
A leader of the Norwegian feminist movement and editor of Nylænde.
Florence E Allen
The first female state supreme court judge in the US and one of the first two women federal judges.
Iordana Nikolaeva Filaretova
Bulgarian who cared for the needy
Klementyna Hofmanowa
Polish educator, scholar and writer
Karolina Světlá
Czech feminist and author