Dorothy Lawrence
During the First World War, Lawrence disguised herself as a man, and using the alias Denis Smith, joined the British Army.
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Isabelle Eberhardt
Swiss explorer who lived and travelled extensively throughout North Africa.
Alice Rohe
Alice Rohe became a newspaper writer in the 1890s and joined Theta Sigma Phi, the first American journalism professional society for women, when it was established in 1909.
Frances Carpenter
Frances Carpenter co-authored a number of anthropology books including The Clothes We Wear (1926) and The Foods We Eat (1926).
Helen Traubel
Opera singer, teacher and writer
Gertrude Sanford Legendre
In 1944, she became the first American woman in uniform to be captured in Germany during an unauthorized visit to the front near Luxembourg.
Áine Ní Chanainn
Irish headmistress and co-founder of Cumann Scannán na nÓg
Alice Stopford Green
Irish historian and nationalist
Frances Blascoer
A settlement worker and the NAACP’s first secretary from February 1910 to March 1911
Danaé Venegas
Mexican writer.