Julia Archibald Holmes
American suffragist and abolitionist, best known for being the first woman to climb Pikes Peak in Colorado in 1858.
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Anna Kuliscioff
Russian-Italian revolutionary known for her activism and political beliefs,
Esphyr Slobodkina
Russian-American artist, author, and illustrator
Florence Merriam Bailey
American ornithologist, naturalist, and author
Gertrude Berg
American actress, screenwriter, and producer best known for her pioneering work in early television.
Gloria Naylor
American novelist best known for her debut work, “The Women of Brewster Place” (1982), which won the National Book Award for First Novel in 1983.
Hallie Quinn Brown
African American educator, writer, and women’s rights activist, renowned for her contributions to education and the fight for racial and gender equality.
Dora Mayer
Self-taught researcher, writer, sociologist, journalist, social activist.
Norma Borthwick
Irish artist, writer and Irish-language activist
Radclyffe Hall
Distinguished English poet and author renowned for her pioneering novel, “The Well of Loneliness,” a groundbreaking position in lesbian literature.