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.
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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
Kiyo Minijima
Japanese businesswoman and philanthropist
Stéphanie Félicité
French writer and educator
Rūmātiki Ruth Wright
Fostered Māori pre-school education by setting up playcentres and reviving other community organisations in rural centres. The playcentres in the Waikato–Maniapoto district were among the first to encourage use of the Māori language, foreshadowing the kohanga reo scheme.
Jenny Lind
Swedish singer of international renown
Jane Stanford
American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University
Pandita Saraswati Ramabai
Advocate for the education of women and the abandonment of the custom of child marriages