Alice Guy-Blaché
She was a pioneer of the French and American film industries during the silent era and the first woman to have a career as a director, yet her work and career have largely been overlooked throughout history.
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Louisa Baker
Louisa Alice Baker was a prolific writer who described herself as ‘bred under the Southern Cross, held cheaply there – and labelled in London’.
Rachel Benton
Paleontologist with the US National Park Service
Florida Ruffin Ridley
While Florida Ruffin Ridley followed in the footsteps of her mother, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, she paved her own way as a writer, activist, and community leader.
Olivia Robello Breitha
Renowned author and Hansen’s disease activist who resided in Kalaupapa from 1937 until her death in 2006.
Haruko Takahashi
Japanese-American Shintō priestess who spent part of World War II imprisoned at Honouliuli Internment Camp on O’ahu, Hawai’i
Harriet Quimby
The first American woman to earn a pilot’s license and the first woman to make a solo flight across the English Channel
Anna Louise Strong
Prolific writer and journalist who brought socialist politics to the mountains when she co-founded Cooperative Campers of the Pacific Northwest in 1916.
Ann Charlotte Bartholomew
English author and flower and miniature painter
Jane Lead
Christian mystic whose spiritual visions, recorded in a series of publications, were central to the founding and philosophy of the Philadelphian Society in London in the 1600s