Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 who managed the presidency after her husband’s 1919 stroke
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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.
Minnie Turner
British activist in politics and social justice, particularly women’s suffrage.
Martha Gunn
English businesswoman and “Queen of the Dippers”
Flora Sassoon
Businesswoman, philanthropist and Hebrew scholar
Anita Roddick
As well as founder of the Body Shop, she was also an energetic human rights, social justice and environmental campaigner; she became a well-known and admired woman all around the world.