Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler
Swedish realistic novelist and dramatist
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Amelia Edwards
English novelist and egyptologist
Charlotte Brontë
English novelist, the author of Jane Eyre
Charlotte Cushman
American actress
Harriet Hosmer
American sculptor and innovator
Frances E Willard
Frances E. Willard (1839-1898) was an American educator, suffragist and temperance reformer.
Christina of Sweden
Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626-1689)
Freda Beatrice Stark
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’.
Dr Anna Howard Shaw
Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), an American suffragist leader, minister and physician.
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.