Aleida Betsy Loosjes-Terpstra
Modernist art historian
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Ada Louise Huxtable
Architectural historian and first permanent architecture critic for the New York Times.
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin
First woman to direct a major American art museum (Baltimore Museum of Art)
Aenne Liebreich
Academic specialist in medieval Burgundian sculpture, particularly Claus Sluter, as well as medieval painting and illumination and costume studies.
Dr Agnes Rindge Claflin
Vassar Professor of Art and Director of the Vassar Art Gallery.
Jessie Ackermann
Jessie Ackermann was an American advocate of temperance and women’s rights, who as an international missionary for the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) spent a number of years in Australia as an organiser and social reformer. She wrote the first book-length study of Australian women.
Lorraine Hansberry
In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry made history as the first African American woman to have a show produced on Broadway—A Raisin in the Sun. As a playwright, feminist, and racial justice activist, Hansberry never shied away from tough topics during her short and extraordinary life. an American artists. Her commitment to racial justice inspired countless more.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Harlem Renaissance poet, critic, journalist, and activist
Jane Marcet
In her 1806 book Conversations on Chemistry, Marcet an influential science writer, taught chemistry lessons through fictional conversations between a teacher and her two female students. This popular book went through numerous editions and was published in many different languages.
Elizabeth Taylor
As one of the first women justices of the peace in Christchurch she was later made an associate magistrate to the Children’s Court. Within the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women, Elizabeth Taylor promoted issues such as a motherhood endowment, women police, the right of married women to retain their own nationality, and women in politics.