543 people found
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Fanny Crosby
19th century Christian hymnist
Florence Nightingale
English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing
Phoebe Judson
American writer
Murder of Julia Martha Thomas
Killed in 1879 in Richmond, London
Lucinda Lee Dalton
Mormon suffragist and early feminist
Clara Barton
American Civil War nurse
Catharine Beecher
American writer, philosopher, educator
Ayu Khandro
Tibetan Buddhist teacher
Mary Harris Jones
Irish-born American labor and community organizer
Maria W. Stewart
American activist, teacher, journalist, lecturer, abolitionist
Charlotte Forten Grimké
American writer and activist
Rebecca Primus
Educator and letter writer
Celia M. Burleigh
American minister
Laura Bridgman
American deaf-blind woman
Lucy Larcom
American teacher, poet, author
Adele Zay
Transylvanian pedagogue, teacher and women's rights activist
Abby Moore Goodwin
American academic and professor
Sara G. Stanley
1836-1918 , African-American teacher of freedmen
Sarah Wool Moore
American artist
Frances Eliza Babbitt
American archaeologist and scientific collector
Mary Bell Smith
American educator, social reformer, writer
Marie Bonnevial
French teacher and feminist
Eliza Frances Andrews
American writer, botanist, and teacher
Margarethe Schurz
American educator
Delia Webster
American abolitionist and teacher
Elizabeth Jennings Graham
African-American activist
Julia C. Collins
American educator and writer
Melinda Rankin
US-American missionary, teacher, and writer (1811-1888)
Sara Jane Crafts
American author, teacher, lecturer
Anna Leonowens
British educator
Hulda Lundin
Swedish tailor, educator
Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage
American philanthropist
Maritcha Remond Lyons
American educator, civic leader, writer
Abigail Hopper Gibbons
American abolitionist, reformer, activist and Civil War nurse
Marianne Cope
German-American Franciscan Sister, missionary and saint
Louise Michel
French author and anarchist
Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Gen Belozerskaia
Russian writer
Hannah Lyman
American educator; first Lady Principal of Vasser College
Elizabeth O. Sampson Hoyt
American philosopher, teacher, author, and social activist
Annie Edson Taylor
American adventurer; first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel