Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler
Swedish realistic novelist and dramatist
Swedish realistic novelist and dramatist
English novelist, the author of Jane Eyre
American actress
American sculptor and innovator
Frances E. Willard (1839-1898) was an American educator, suffragist and temperance reformer.
Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626-1689)
During the Second World War she entertained troops at the Wintergarden cabaret and nightclub at the Civic Theatre in Auckland, earning the nickname ‘Fever of the Fleet’.
Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), an American suffragist leader, minister and physician.
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.
After taking her MD in Brussels in 1894, she worked as Assistant Medical Officer at the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children, and also penned further novels and short stories. She has also gained recognition among the scientific community for having proposed the word ‘isotope’.