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.

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Winifred Kastner

An Australian activist and philanthropist, the causes she supported were wide-ranging, although with a common core around the welfare of women and children in the home.

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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.

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