Mary T S Putnam
Besides numerous contributions to magazines in literature and history, she wrote two metrical dramas on slavery, and made a translation from the Swedish of Fredrika Bremer’s The Neighbors.
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Anne Dacier
Anne Dacier (1654-1720) was one of the most accomplished scholars in France.
Evelyn Boyd Granville
Evelyn Boyd Granville was only the second African-American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from an American University. She worked in computing.
Helen Connon
Helen Connon played a pioneering role in the education of New Zealand women.
Sophie Willock Bryant
Sophie Willock Bryant was an Irish mathematician who also published on many other topics: Irish history, religion, education, women’s rights, and philosophy.
Christina of Sweden
Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626-1689)
Mākereti Papakura
Tūhourangi woman of mana, guide, ethnographer
Hypatia
Hypatia of Alexandria (370-416), a mathematician and philosopher, one of the most eminent women teachers of antiquity, and one of the ablest of the later Greeks who preached the pagan philosophy.
Aspasia
By her great eloquence, political and literary ability and personal fascination, she at once obtained a commanding position among the leaders of the state, and gained the affections of Pericles, the ruler of Athens.
Christine McKelvie Cole Catley
The distinguished writer and journalist Christine Cole Catley was one of New Zealand’s leading independent publishers of the late twentieth century. She was co-founder of the Parents Centre movement in the 1950s, and an influential teacher and shaper of broadcasting policy.