Constance Markievicz
Irish republican and labour activist
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Adelaide Kellett
Adelaide Kellett became Matron of the Sydney Hospital in 1921 after serving in World War 1 as an army nurse. She was President of the Australasian Trained Nurses Association 1929-1930, 1933-1934, 1937 and 1941-1942.
Monica de Wichfeld
Danish WWII resistance heroine
Betsy Gray
Irish heroine of the 1798 rebellion
Jeanne de Clisson
Known as the Lioness of Brittany, Jeanne turned to piracy to avenge her husband, who the French king had had executed for treason.
Margaret of Anjou
Queen of England
Paddy O’Sullivan
Irish undercover SOE agent during World War II
Lillie Devereaux Blake
American suffragist and social reformer
Florence Dixie
English explorer and writer
Katharine Prescott Wormeley
American translator and author