Jane Grey Swisshelm
American journalist, anti-slavery agitator and war nurse
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Edith Cavell
English war-nurse, head of a nurses’ training school in Brussels, where she attended German as well as Allied soldiers during the European War. In August 1915, she was accused by the German military authorities of Belgium of assisting prisoners to escape, and in October was condemned to be shot by a firing squad of German soldiers.
Agustina de Aragón
Spanish heroine who defended her city during the terrible seige of Zaragoza in 1808
Dr Anita Newcomb McGee
American physician and army nurse
Jeanne d’Albret
Queen of Navarre
Dr James Barry
Army doctor
Elisabeth of France
Queen of Spain. In 1640 when Catalonia revolted and Portugal separated from Spain, the queen appealed in person to the Castilians, and succeeded within a few weeks in raising an army of 50,000 men.
Boudica
Briton queen who fought the Romans
Louise Michel
French anarchist agitator, called the Red Virgin of Montmartre
Philippa of Hainault
Founder of Queen’s College, Oxford