Isabel Le Brun de Pinochet
Founder of the Lyceum Le Brun de Pinochet, a Chilean school for girls, in the year 1875.
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Isabel Calvimontes
She was a heroine of civil life during a period when the conditions in Argentina were chaotic.
Hortensia von Moos
She wrote on many and varied subjects,including the structure of the human body; disease, its cause and cure; the care and raising of children; tea, coffee, chocolate, and geology.
María Stagnero de Munar
Founded the Institute for Young Ladies in Montevideo.
Mariquita Sánchez
Argentine activist and salon host
Mariana Bracetti
Puerto Rican heroine
Lola Rodríguez de Tió
Puerto Rican-Cuban poet and activist
Manuela Beltrán
Colombian patriot
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Navajo leader and activist
Angélica Larrea
The Bolivian Yungas forests are home to the Afro-Bolivian kingdom. At the centre is Mururata, where lives ‘el rey afroboliviano’ or ‘the Afro-Bolivian king’ Julio Bonifaz Pinedo and queen consort Angélica Larrea.