Mary Ann Gilbert
English allotment activist
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Flora Sassoon
Businesswoman, philanthropist and Hebrew scholar
Emilia Sczaniecka
Polish social and national activist during the November Uprising (1830–1831)
Marta Abreu y Arencibia
Cuban philanthropist
Gertrude Denman
Director of the Women’s Land Army during the Second World War, and President of the Women’s Institute from 1917 – 1946.
Laura Bell
Celebrated Irish beauty and courtesan
Baranamtarra
Baranamtarra was an ancient Mesopotamia businesswoman.
Sarah Franklin Bache
Sarah Bache, the only daughter of Benjamin Franklin, was a leader in relief work during the American Revolutionary War and frequently served as her father’s political hostess.
Bernardina Frajoso de Rivera
Uruguayan philanthropist and benefactor, first lady of Uruguay in 1830 to 1834 and from 1838 to 1843
Anna Pestalozzi-Schulthess
Swiss educator and philanthropist