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1880. Abolitionist and women's rights campaigner. [39] 1700–1799. Judith Sargent Murray. United States. 1751. 1820. Early American proponent of female equality and author of On the Equality of the Sexes.
Madeleine-Françoise Calais (circa 1713– fl. 1740) French dentist. Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751–1827), German astronomer. Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1728–1825), Italian mathematician and physicist. Sarah Sophia Banks (1744–1818), British natural history collector.
Henrietta Johnston was the first known female portrait painter in the American colonies as well as the first woman pastelist. [6] Elizabeth Timothy was the first woman to print a formal newspaper as well as the first female franchise holder in the colonies. [4] Jane Colden was the first woman botanist in America.
Nicarete of Megara (fl. around 300 BCE) Catherine of Alexandria (282–305) Ptolemais of Cyrene (3rd century BCE) Aesara of Lucania (3rd century BCE) Diotima of Mantinea (appears in Plato's Symposium) Ban Zhao (c. 35–100) D2. Sosipatra of Ephesus (4th century CE) Xie Daoyun (before 340–after 399) Hypatia (c. 360–415 CE)
Catherine Murat, Princess Murat (née Catherine Daingerfield Willis). This is a non-exhaustive list of some American socialites, so called American dollar princesses, from before the Gilded Age to the end of the 20th century, who married into the European titled nobility, peerage, or royalty.
Nana Asma'u (1793–1864), Fulani poet and pioneer of women's education in Sokoto Caliphate. Mah Laqa Bai (1768–1824), Urdu poet and philanthropist. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), English poet, essayist, literary critic and children's author. Margaret Bingham (1740–1814), English poet and painter.
List of women explorers and travelers. English writer Gertrude Bell in Iraq, 1909. Belgian Berthe Cabra. Japanese climber Junko Tabei. Hungarian geographer Béláné Mocsáry. Canadian-born Aloha Wanderwell. The women listed below are or were explorers or world travelers. They include naturalists, sailors, mountain climbers, dog sledders ...
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a new breed of women started to emerge from the depths of circus tents around the world: the strong-woman. These women quickly drew large crowds of circus lovers ...