Artemisia I of Caria
Queen of Halicarnassus (c. 484-460), in what is now southwest Turkey
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Tamar of Georgia
Tamar ascended the Georgian throne as sole monarch.
Arwa al-Sulayhi
Arwa al-Sulayhi of Yemen was queen consort from 1067 until his death in 1084, holding increasing power as he retreated from public life due to paralysation. At her husband’s death, she became regent for their son Ali Abd al-Mustansir until his death in 1094, and became queen in her own right.
Lakshmi Bai
Ruler and military leader of Jhansi who fought British imperialism
Lillian Gish
In 1920, Lillian Gish both delivered a landmark performance in D.W. Griffith’s Way Down East and directed her sister Dorothy in Remodelling Her Husband. This was her sole director credit in a career as a screen actor that began with An Unseen Enemy in 1912 and ended with The Whales of August in 1987.
Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom
Anne McCaffrey
American-Irish science fiction and fantasy writer
Josephine Tychson
After losing her husband to suicide during his battle with tuberculosis, Josephine undertook an extensive rebuilding of his winery and oversaw the very first harvest. She kept the business alive until 1895 when she decided to sell it to the then burgeoning giant Italian Swiss Colony. The winery, located near St. Helena, still stands today as part of Freemark Abbey Wines.
Ellen Stuart
Eliza Shaw Hood, Ellen Stuart, and Kate Warfield all hailed from Glen Ellen. All three lived and worked near one another, and all three took over the wineries owned by their respective husbands in the late 1870s and early 1880s.
Catherine II of Russia
Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia