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Founded Boston’s first finishing school, co-founded the Boston Arts Festival, and became the “First Lady of Fashion”.

20th century American actor

Structural engineer and pioneer in the then newly-emerging nations of Israel and Zimbabwe, as well as an early female engineer in her field.

The first full time woman judge in Massachusetts and the first woman judge on the Massachusetts Superior Court

As one of Boston’s leading women philanthropists of the day

Belarussian-American author and immigration rights activist.

Russian-American artist known as the “subway sculptress” for creating clay models during her work as a toll collector

The first American nurse in the European Theater to be killed in combat during World War II.

One of the first nutritionists in the United States.

Romanian-American singer