Margaret Gaj
Irish restaurateur, radical, and political activist
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Conxita Mora Jordana
Conxita Mora Jordana was an Andorran politician of the Coalition for Progress party. She served as the first female Mayor of Andorra la Vella from 1999 to 2003. She later served as the director of the Andorran Business Confederation (CEA).
Fanny Davenport
American stage actress and manager
Mary Jane Innes
Mary Jane Innes took over the management of the Te Awamutu Brewery, brewing ale and producing aerated waters. Showing considerable business acumen, in November 1889 she announced that she had taken over the management of the Waikato Brewery as well.
Laura Keene
American actress and manager
Lydia Sigourney
Prolific writer on many subjects, producing about fifty volumes of prose, poems and selections, many of which attained wide popularity.
Annie Jenness Miller
American dress reformer, author, publisher and lecturer
Cosima Wagner
Composer and co-founder of the Bayreuth Festival
Amy Merania Harper
A successful professional photographer and businesswoman, she was distinctive for her skill in formal portraiture, and for the broad range of New Zealand faces she captured. Several hundred thousand of her negatives are held in the Auckland Institute and Museum Library.
Flora MacKenzie
Between 1962 and 1976 Flora MacKenzie appeared in court six times on brothel-keeping charges, and was twice imprisoned for periods of six months.