Alice Bradley Sheldon
Science fiction writer under the pen name James Tiptree Jr.
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Mary Joy Langdon
Sister Mary Joy Langdon, who has the renown of being Britain’s first female retained professional fire-fighter before going on to create an innovative charity, introducing inner-city children and young people with disabilities to horse riding and equine therapy.
Dr Helen Boyle
Helen Boyle (1869-1957) was Brighton’s first woman GP and transformed the lives of working-class women in the area through her ground-breaking treatment of mental illness.
Hilde Himmelweit
German social psychologist who was influential on the development of the discipline in the United Kingdom
Esther Seager
The Seagers carried out innovative, humane, and imaginative policies in their treatment of the patients at Sunnyside asylum in New Zealand.
June Opie
June Opie was a polio survivor, clinical psychologist, writer and broadcaster who overcame discrimination against the disabled to achieve professional and personal success. Her memoir, Over my dead body (1957), was an international best-seller and brought her widespread fame.
Marie Mildred Clay
Marie Clay was an influential literacy researcher and educationalist whose pioneering Reading Recovery programme changed the experience of learning to read for many children in many countries.
Christine Ladd-Franklin
Christine Ladd-Franklin was an American psychologist, logician and mathematician who was one of the earliest women to work in American universities.
Edith Hirsch Luchins
Edith Luchins was a Polish-American mathematician who applied mathematical methods to problems in the philosophy of science and psychology.
Kathleen Mary Gertrude Todd
Kathleen Todd believed passionately that the important role of any doctor is ‘sometimes to cure, often to relieve, but always to console’. This dictum came to have a very personal resonance for this gifted, warm and empathetic psychiatrist.