Anna Maria Van Schurman
Dutch painter, engraver, poet, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist writer known for her exceptional learning and her defense of female education.
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Edith Kanakaʻole
Edith Kanaka’ole (also affectionately called “Aunty Edith”), a native Hawaiian composer, chanter and dancer, was a champion for the preservation of native Hawaiian culture and arts. Kanaka’ole lead the highly celebrated dance school, Hālau o Kekuhi, where her legacy as a Kumu Hula, or chief practitioner of traditional Hawaiian dance and culture, took flight.
Elizabeth Carter
English writer of various books of prose and verse, chiefly remembered for her admirable translation of Epictetus, the first that appear in English.
Erminnie A Smith
American ethnologist who studied the languages and customs of the Iroquois
Agnes Smith Lewis
Proficient in modern Greek, Arabic, and Syriac, she wrote a number of novels and accounts of travel. In 1892, with her twin sister, Mrs. Margaret Dunlop Gibson, she discovered in the library of the convent of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai, the palimpsest containing the Four Gospels in Syriac, representing the oldest text known of any part of the new Testament.
Mary Astell
English author and linguist
Daisy May Bates
A self-taught anthropologist, Daisy Bates conducted fieldwork amongst several Indigenous nations in western and southern Australia.
Una Vincenzo
Perhaps best known as the the long-time lesbian partner of Marguerite Radclyffe Hall, author of The Well of Loneliness, sculptor and translator Una Troubridge was an educated woman with achievements in her own right. She was a successful translator and the first to translate the works of French writer Colette for English readers. Her talent as a sculptor led the renowned ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky to sit for her several times. She and Radclyffe Hall were also known for being interested in spiritualism, and hosting seances.