Pauline Fanning

Fanning’s roles at the National Library of Australia included Chief Librarian, Australian Reference (1966-1972); Principal Librarian, Australian Reference (1972-1975) and Director, Australian National Humanities Library (1975-1980).

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Agnes Smith Lewis

Proficient in modern Greek, Arabic, and Syriac, she wrote a number of novels and accounts of travel. In 1892, with her twin sister, Mrs. Margaret Dunlop Gibson, she discovered in the library of the convent of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai, the palimpsest containing the Four Gospels in Syriac, representing the oldest text known of any part of the new Testament.

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Martha J R Lamb

From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Martha Joanna Reade Lamb, an American historian, born at Plainfield, Mass. She was married to Charles A. Lamb in 1852, and after some years’ residence in the West, removed to New York in 1866 where she became a favorite socially.
Mrs. Lamb was secretary of the first Sanitary Fair and held membership in many learned societies.
From 1883 till her death she edited the Magazine of American History, in which she published many of her own essays. Her chief book, the History of the City of New York (two volumes, 1877 – 1881), was the valuable result of about fifteen years of patient labor and research.
Other volumes worthy of mention are The Homes of America and Wall Street in History.

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Ida Laura Pfeiffer

1800s Austrian traveler whos books include Journey of a Viennese to the Holy Land, Journey to the Scandinavian North, and a Women’s Journey round the World.

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