Nannie Helen Burroughs
African-American educator, speaker, religious leader, civil rights activist, feminist, and businesswoman
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Jane Lead
Christian mystic whose spiritual visions, recorded in a series of publications, were central to the founding and philosophy of the Philadelphian Society in London in the 1600s
Walpurga of Paderborn
Saint and Anglo-Saxon missionary to the Frankish Empire in the 700s
Allish
Jewish scholar and translator circa 1700
Agnes d’Harcourt
Abbess of the convent of Longchamp, near Paris
Louise de Marillac
One of the most active members of the Ladies of Charity in 1600s France
Pinepine Te Rika
Tūhoe woman of mana
Mary Bernard
While her achievements in New Zealand were notable, it was for her earlier nursing experience that she was honoured after her death.
Hrotsvitha von Gandersheim
Religious poet and nun
Judith Plaskow
American theologian, author, and activist