Rachel Pringle Polgreen
In the 1770s and 1780s, hotelier and brothel owner Rachel Pringle Polgreen was one of the first mulatto women to own and operate a business in colonial Barbados.
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Irene Gilbert
Irish fashion designer
Sarah Harding
Dublin printer and publisher
Grace Hirst
New Zealand farmer, midwife, nurse and businesswoman
Catherine Finn
Irish newspaper publisher in the 1700s
Jane Williams
Irish silversmith
Barbe-Nicole Clicquot
Even though she lived her life amidst a series of bloody revolutions, Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin spun gold from grapes.
Jahanara Begum
Mughal princess and Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire
Georgie Yeats
Irish scholar, occultist, publisher, and wife of William Butler Yeats
Germaine Ford de Maria
Germaine Ford de Maria was a French philanthropist who funded Egyptologist Christiane Desroches Noblecourt’s excavation of the Valley of the Queens in the 1980s, among other cultural and environmental causes.