Adelaide of Susa
Countess of part of the March of Ivrea and the marchioness of Turin in northwestern Italy from 1034 to her death in 1091.
Countess of part of the March of Ivrea and the marchioness of Turin in northwestern Italy from 1034 to her death in 1091.
Swedish women’s rights activist and philanthropist
Irish teacher, activist and philanthropist
When her husband was sent to Tasmania as Governor in the 1830s and 40s, she travelled widely, improved the wretched conditions that female prisoners endured, encouraged the building of schools for boys and girls, commissioned a temple, and founded a museum.
France’s longest-serving queen
Pioneering American feminist, educator, and social reformerof the 1800s
Daughter of Shah Tahmasp, Pari Khan Khanum took on a political role during her father’s reign, helping him to rule during his last years of illness in 1500s Iran.
Mughal princess and Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire
Germaine Ford de Maria was a French philanthropist who funded Egyptologist Christiane Desroches Noblecourt’s excavation of the Valley of the Queens in the 1980s, among other cultural and environmental causes.
Before becoming involved in policing, she was a talented student at the London Academy of Music, a respected mountaineer and a fearless campaigner for animal rights and the anti-vivisection movement. In 1906 she was secretary of the International Animal Protection Societies and was awarded medals by Finland and Denmark for her outstanding contribution to animal welfare.