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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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.
Anna Swanwick
English writer, translator, and philanthropist.
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.