Eleanor Abbott
Eleanor Abbott created the game Candy Land while she was recovering from polio
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Ann Alabaster
New Zealand teacher
Ruth Homan
Educator and advocate for women’s welfare, who served on the London School Board for several years, and actively participated in Liberal politics, promoting progressive social policies.
Dr Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.
Katherine Millett
American feminist writer, educator, artist and activist.
Dr Julia Lermontova
The first Russian woman to earn a doctorate in chemistry
Laura Smith Haviland
Pivotal figure in the American abolitionist movement.
Mary Hamilton Swindler
American archaeologist, classical art scholar, author, and professor
Anna Vsevolodovna of Kyiv
Princess of Kyivan Rus and is best known for introducing educational institutions for girls within Kyivan Rus.
Forrest Ross
New Zealand teacher, mountaineer, journalist and writer