Amy Lowell
American poet and critic
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Freda Du Faur
Du Faur is significant as the best amateur climber of her day and as the first woman to take up high climbing in New Zealand
Helen Marot
American labor leader
Selma Lagerlöf
Eminent Swedish novelist and leader of the modern romantic reaction in Sweden.
Sophia Jex-Blake
In 1886 she opened the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, of which she was dean until her retirement in 1899. She is the author of American Schools and Colleges, Medical Women and Care of Infants.
Amelia Edwards
English novelist and egyptologist
Charlotte Cushman
American actress
Harriet Hosmer
American sculptor and innovator
Sappho
Sappho, (flourished about 600 B.C.) a Greek poet, native of Lesbos, where she was head of a great poetic school, for poetry in that age and place was cultivated as assiduously and apparently as successfully by women as by men.
Billie Jean King
One of the greatest tennis players of all time and a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient for her advocacy for women in sports and LGBTQ rights, Billie Jean King won 39 Grand Slam titles in her tennis career and led the fight for equal pay in tennis.