Anna Swanwick
English writer, translator, and philanthropist.
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Mathilde de Castro Marchesi
French singing teacher
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori
Italian physician and educator, founder of the Montessori System of teaching children
Lina Morgenstern
German social reformer. At eighteen she had organized a league to aid poor school children, and after her marriage to Dr. Morgenstern she founded the Berlin Kindergarten Association, of which she was president from 1860 – 1866.
Emma Hart Willard
Leader in the American movement for the higher education of women, founder of the Troy Female Seminary, and active in the great national revival of common schools in the United States.
Isabella Graham
Scottish philanthropist who helped establish the Society for the Relief of Poor Widows, the Orphan Asylum Society, the Society for promoting Industry among the Poor, and the first Sunday School for Ignorant Adults.
Maria Edgeworth
Irish novelist, whose stories represent a distinct stop in the development of fiction in English and are progenitors of similar productions including Sir Walter Scott’s novels of Scottish life.
Elizabeth Storrs Mead
President of Mount Holyoke Seminary and College.
Philippa of Hainault
Founder of Queen’s College, Oxford
Elisabeth of Wied
Queen of Romania, known as “Carmen Sylva”, a poet and novelist who fostered the higher education of women in Romania