Gorgo of Sparta
The clever and heroic wife of Leonidas in ancient Sparta.
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Gina Krog
A leader of the Norwegian feminist movement and editor of Nylænde.
Iordana Nikolaeva Filaretova
Bulgarian who cared for the needy
Josefa Jacoba Jované
First lady of Panama from 1908 to 1910
Hedwig Dransfeld
German writer and activist
Angélica Larrea
The Bolivian Yungas forests are home to the Afro-Bolivian kingdom. At the centre is Mururata, where lives ‘el rey afroboliviano’ or ‘the Afro-Bolivian king’ Julio Bonifaz Pinedo and queen consort Angélica Larrea.
Margaret Hardy
Brighton’s first female mayor
Minna Cauer
German pedagogue, activist in the feminist movement, pacifist and journalist.
Mary Todd Lincoln
U.S. First Lady during the American Civil War
Maria Konopnicka
Writer of lyrics, poems, dramatic sketches, novels, and commentaries on literature, who translated many masterpieces of French, Czech and German literature.