Mary Cannell
Mary Cannell was an English mathematician and historian who worked extensively on George Green.
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Gloria Olive
Gloria Olive was an American mathematician who worked on on applications of generalised powers.
Margaret de Navarre
Margaret of Navarre (1492-1549) was a French politician, religious reformer, literary patron, and author.
Madeleine de Scudéry
Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) was one of the most famous French novelists of her time.
Belva Ann Lockwood
Belva Ann Lockwood (1830-1917) was an American lawyer and reformer.
Frances E Willard
Frances E. Willard (1839-1898) was an American educator, suffragist and temperance reformer.
Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette
Marie-Madeleine, Comtesse de La Fayette (1634-1692), was a French novelist, and social leader.
Janet Paterson Frame
For more than 20 years Frame had been annually nominated by PEN (the New Zealand Society of Authors) for the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was shortlisted twice, the second time in 2003, the year she was diagnosed with leukaemia. That year, along with Hone Tuwhare and her biographer Michael King, Frame was the recipient of an inaugural Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement.
Muriel Wallace May
In 1960, when the government set up the Commission on Education in New Zealand, she was appointed a member. She had had wide educational experience, including service from 1938 to 1946 as the first woman on the Council of the University of Otago.
Marianne Williams
Marianne Williams was the first substantial witness to record, from a woman’s point of view, early domestic interaction among Māori and Pākehā.