Dr Anna Howard Shaw
Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), an American suffragist leader, minister and physician.
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Corita Kent
During her lifetime, and especially in the twenty years following her death, Kent’s work never quite worked its way into the mainstream. Being a female artist and a nun, she did not fit into the detached, jaded aesthetic narrative of Pop.
Fatima al-Fihri
Also known as Umm al-Banayn, Fatima bint Muhammad Al-Fihriyya is credited with founding the al-Qarawiyyin mosque in 859 AD in Fez, Morocco. The mosque later developed a teaching institution, which became the University of al-Qarawiyyin in 1963.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton was the first American to be canonized as a saint. She was raised Episcopalian, but later converted to Catholicism. Through the struggles and tragedies she faced in life, she remained devout. She is the founder of the first Catholic schools in the United States and is the patron saint of Catholic schools, widows, and seafarers.
Anne Hutchinson
Considered one of the earliest American feminists, Anne Hutchinson was a spiritual leader in colonial Massachusetts who challenged male authority—and, indirectly, acceptable gender roles—by preaching to both women and men and by questioning Puritan teachings about salvation.
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy founded a popular religious movement during the 19th century, Christian Science. As an author and teacher, she helped promote healings through mental and spiritual teachings. Today, her influence can still be seen throughout the American religious landscape.
Na Agontimé
Agontimé was a queen of Dahomey in the early 1800s, one of multiple wives of King Agonglo.
Lady of Cao
The Lady of Cao is a nickname given to a female Moche mummy discovered in 2005 at the El Brujo archeological site about 45 km north of Trujillo in Peru’s La Libertad Region.
Addagoppe of Harran
Addagoppe of Harran was an Assyrian priestess of the moon god Sîn in the northern Assyrian city of Harran, and the mother of King Nabonidus (ruled 556–39 BC) of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
Sophia Frances Anne Caulfeild
Sophia Frances Anne Caulfeild was a British writer and needleworker who wrote about religion and needlework, and frequently worked with Blanche Catherine Saward.
In 1882 she and Blanche Saward had their Dictionary of Needlework published. The work was available in six volumes and its full title was The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the meaning of technical terms, and, where necessary, tracing the origin and history of the various works described. Their encyclopedia attempted to describe all aspects of needlework, with 800 woodcut illustrations and more than 528 pages of alphabetical entries. The section on embroidery alone was 24 pages long. This work was aimed at the fashion for needlework and it competed with Thérèse de Dillmont’s Complete Encyclopedia of Needlework published in 1884 and Weldon’s Practical Needlework which was published in monthly parts from 1886.
Caulfeild also had a book of poetry published in 1870, and in 1887 published The Lives of the Apostles, their contemporaries and successors.