Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova
Russian litterateur, and one of the leaders of the party that raised Catherine II to the throne
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Emma Hart Willard
Leader in the American movement for the higher education of women, founder of the Troy Female Seminary, and active in the great national revival of common schools in the United States.
Ella Mary Latham
Philanthropist and medical reformer
Fabiola
Founder of the first hospital in Rome.
Eleanor Anne Ormerod
English naturalist and entomologist
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