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
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Helen Marot
American labor leader
Selma Lagerlöf
Eminent Swedish novelist and leader of the modern romantic reaction in Sweden.
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
Author and war-time lecturer
Eleonora Duse
Italian actress
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.
Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler
Swedish realistic novelist and dramatist
Charlotte Brontë
English novelist, the author of Jane Eyre
Charlotte Cushman
American actress
Harriet Hosmer
American sculptor and innovator