Jane Franklin

When her husband was sent to Tasmania as Governor in the 1830s and 40s, she travelled widely, improved the wretched conditions that female prisoners endured, encouraged the building of schools for boys and girls, commissioned a temple, and founded a museum.

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Jeanne Baret

French explorer and botanist who disguised herself as a man to go on an expedition and became the first known woman to circumnavigate the world

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