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Mary Ashton Livermore

Journalist, Philanthropist, and Lecturer

Williamina Paton Fleming

American astronomer; in 1879 she became an assistant at the Harvard College Observatory, and later was appointed curator of the astronomical photographs.

Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke

Caring for soldiers, she declared that the officers were sufficiently looked after, and she would work where most needed. And they were ardently devoted to “Mother” Bickerdyke.

Tarquinia Molza

Italian Singer, Poet, Conductor, Composer and Scholar

Mabel Te Aowhaitini Mangakāhia

The most eminent and successful Māori nurse of her day

From both scientific and artistic points of view, Fanny Osborne’s paintings of the flowers of the indigenous trees, shrubs, vines and herbs of Great Barrier are exceptional and superbly crafted examples of botanical illustration. They

Marianne North

English naturalist and flower-painter

Mary Wortley Montagu

English author and letter-writer, who promoted the practice of inoculation against smallpox in Britain.

Mary Henrietta Kingsley

English traveller, ethnologist and author

Pauline Sperry

Pauline Sperry was an American mathematician who worked in projective differential geometry.