Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
After her husband’s death in 1758 she took the reins of government, and held them so well that Saxe-Weimar was able speedily to recover from the effects of the Seven Years’ War, and escaped the famine of 1773.
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Jeanne F J Recamier
French social leader, one of the most beautiful and best beloved women of her time.
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.
Marie-Jeanne Roland
French patriot
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Russian mystic and social leader in Paris.
Anne of Brittany
Duchess of Brittany and queen of France
Amelia Edwards
English novelist and egyptologist
Tarquinia Molza
Italian Singer, Poet, Conductor, Composer and Scholar
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.
Anne Dacier
Anne Dacier (1654-1720) was one of the most accomplished scholars in France.