Mary Josephine Donovan-O’Sullivan
1900s Irish historian
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Blanche Thompson
Early 1900s New Zealand sportswoman
Sarah Greenwood
New Zealander Sarah Greenwood recorded in letters and drawings her experience of pioneer life in the Nelson district, where she lived for 46 years.
Fanny McHugh
Although the work for which she was more widely known was done during and after the First World War, McHugh had striven to enhance the health and welfare of women for nearly half a century.
Margaret Byers
Irish educationist, suffragist, and philanthropist
Maria Pellegrina Amoretti
In 1777, after being rejected by the University of Turin, Maria Pellegrina Amoretti graduated at 21 in Iure utroque (civil and canon Law) at the University of Pavia, defending her doctoral theses.
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
American botanist, educator, author and editor
Abella of Salerno
1300s Italian physician and writer Abella of Salerno studied and taught at the Salerno School of Medicine.
Bessie Spencer
New Zealand school principal, orchardist, community leader
Elizabeth Blodgett Hall
American educator and the founder of Simon’s Rock College of Bard, the first early college entrance program in the United States.