Ruth Baldwin
Early film director, editor and writer
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Elspeth Beard
The first British woman to ride a motorcycle around the world in 1982-84.
Mary Manning
Mary Manning was one of a handful of women active behind the camera in Ireland’s two waves of silent film production.
Cleo Madison
Theatre and silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director active in Hollywood during the silent era.
Candelaria Figueredo
Cuban revolutionary
Leona Vicario
Heroine of Mexican Independence
Marija Pēkšēna
The first Latvian woman playwright.
Josefa Acevedo Sánchez
Colombian writer
Mary Pearse
Co-founded the Leinster Stage Society, for which she wrote some original pieces and adapted some Dickens for the stage. They had moderate success until a calamitous run at the Cork opera house in 1912.
Dorothy Levitt
Dubbed ‘the Fastest Girl on Earth’, Dorothy Levitt was an early motorist who competed in speed trials and long distance races, setting the Ladies World Speed record in the Brighton Speed Trials of 1905, by driving her Napier racing car at 79.75 mph.