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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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.

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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.

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