Lydia Sigourney
Prolific writer on many subjects, producing about fifty volumes of prose, poems and selections, many of which attained wide popularity.
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Annie Jenness Miller
American dress reformer, author, publisher and lecturer
Annie Nathan Meyer
American author and promoter of the higher education of women
Caroline Hazard
American educator, from 1899 to 1911 president of Wellesley College
Emily James Smith Putnam
American author and educator
Alice Freeman Palmer
American educator, elected to the chair of history in Wellesley College in 1879, and three years later became president, which position she retained till her marriage in 1887.
Dr Ann Preston
American physician and educator who entered the Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia in 1850, when the institution was opened, graduated two years later, and was professor of physiology and hygiene from 1854 and dean from 1866.
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
American novelist, poet and essayist
Dr Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier
Dr Lozier graduated (1853) at the Syracuse Medical College, and began to practice in New York City, where she had great success as a surgeon.
Patricia Marjorie Ralph
Marine biologist Pat Ralph specialised in marine hydroids, which before she began publishing were little studied in New Zealand; she published five seminal papers on the thecate hydroids of New Zealand between 1957 and 1961. Her pioneering work won worldwide recognition and in 1962 she received the rarely given DSc; she was the first woman on the staff of Victoria University College to receive the degree.