Jean McKenzie
She was one of the first three appointments to the New Zealand diplomatic service and was later promoted to the rank of minister, the first New Zealand woman to hold a position of such seniority in the Overseas Service.
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Jane Grey
Protestant queen of England for nine days
Yekaterina Breshkovskaya
The “Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”
Dorothea Lieven
Russian diplomatist
Françoise d’Aubigne
Marchioness de Maintenon, second wife of King Louis XIV of France.
Helen Marot
American labor leader
Esther Marion Pretoria James
Esther Marion Pretoria James was remarkable for the diversity of her achievements, and in the 1930s became a national celebrity during a sponsored walk of the length of New Zealand.
Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova
Russian litterateur, and one of the leaders of the party that raised Catherine II to the throne
Louise Michel
French anarchist agitator, called the Red Virgin of Montmartre
Anne Boleyn
Queen of England, one of the wives of Henry VIII, mother of Elizabeth I.