Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Architects

Copenhague, 20-03-1903 — Frederiksberg, 09-06-1961

Review: The name Ragna Grubb may not ring a bell with most Danish people, but her work as an architect has played an important role in the cultural history of Denmark given that her ideas established a new set of standards for the inhabitants of Copenhagen

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Politicians
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Educators > School teachers
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Bloggers

Xàbia, 1953

Review: As an author, she has one of the strongest and most constant literary careers since the 70s in the Valencian Country. She identifies as a storyteller, creator and narrator. She recovers legends and creates characters linked to a history, a language

Groups by dedication:

• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Columnists
• Writers > in > English
• Activists > Feminists (activists)

Arkansas, 18-02-1922 — New York, 13-08-2012

Review: Helen Gurley Brown was a writer and editor whose publications about the role of women in mid-20th century society encouraged sexual and professional independence of many young female readers. She wrote several novels and was editor in chief of _Cos

Groups by dedication:

• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Producers (cinema and theatre)
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Cinema directors / Producers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Actresses
• Writers > in > French
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Autobiographers

Saint-Mande, Val-de-Marne, France, 01-07-1873 — New Jersey, 24-03-1968

Review:  Alice Guy-Blaché (France 1873 - USA 1964) is considered one of the first filmmaker to systematically develop narrative filmmaking in the history of cinema. She was in the room when the Lumière brothers held the first ever cinema screening in Paris

Groups by dedication:

• Healthcare workers > Nurses
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers > Photojournalists

Pennsylvania, 07-03-1956

Review: Carol Guzy has won numerous awards, including four Pulitzers, for her work on disasters, wars, conflicts, and all kinds of situations, in which she has photographed the consequences suffered by innocent people. According to her, her nursing studies

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Computer scientists
• Technologists > Inventors
• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Educators > School teachers
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers
• Writers > in > English

Paoli (Indiana), 1936

Review: Computer scientist, mathematician, and software engineer. She was head of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where she and her team developed the on-board navigation software for the Apollo Space Programme. She

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Pacifists
• Writers > in > Arabic
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Graffiti artists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers

Tehran, 1988

Review: She is the first female graffiti artist in Afghanistan. Through her work she portrays Afghan women in a male-dominated society. In her works she gives women a different face, with power, ambitions and the desire to achieve their goals. The woman

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Object designers
• Technologists > Inventors
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers
• Writers > in > English

North Carolina; 28-09-1887 — 26-02-1973

Review: Beulah Louise Henry was a completely self-taught American inventor and businesswoman, responsible for some 110 inventions and 49 patents, which is why she was known by the nickname "Lady Edison", by analogy with the prolific Thomas Alva Edison. She

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Astronomers

Hanover; 16-03-1750 — 09-01-1848

Review: Considered the first professional astronomer, as well as being well known. She was the first person to see and discover the planet Uranus, as well as comets and nebulae. She revised and corrected the star tables. Together with her brother, she foun

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Orators
• Writers > in > Latin

Rome; 1st century BCE

Review: Hortensia was the daughter of Quintus Hortensius, a famous orator who had achieved great prestige in the Forum before Cicero's triumph.  In a context in which it was not possible for women to give speeches in court in defense of others nor to acce

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Natural philosophers / Naturalists
• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Scientists > Physicists
• Humanistics > Intellectuals
• Humanistics > Philosophers
• Educators

Alexandria (Egypt); between 355 and 370 — c. 415

Review: Philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer who taught at the Library of Alexandria alongside her father and other notable figures in the 4th century. She was one of the great scientists of antiquity.

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Chemists
• Writers > in > German

Wrolac (Poland), 1870 — Berlin (Germany), 1915

Review: Clara Immerwahr was the first woman to obtain a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Breslau in 1900.  She worked with her husband, Fritz Haber. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1918. In 1904, they discovered the so- called Haber pr

Groups by dedication:

• Writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Poets

Vilnius (Lithuania); 14-11-1961 — 17-02-2007

Review: Jurga Ivanauskaite was not only a traveller or writer but also a very dedicated activist, not only travelling and presenting Tibet and its culture to Lithuanian readers but also organizing exhibitions of Tibetan photographs, protests to liberate Ti

Groups by dedication:

• Writers
• Writers > Story writers

Siauliai, Paragiai (Lithuania), — Kaunas, Paragiai (Lithuania),

Review: Lazdynų Pelėda (literally: Hazelnut Owl) was the common pen name of two Lithuanian sisters writers: Sofija Ivanauskaitė-Pšibiliauskienė (1867–1926) and Marija Ivanauskaitė-Lastauskienė (1872–1957), who were individually mostly known by their respec

Groups by dedication:

• Musicians > Instrumentalists
• Musicians > Lyricists
• Writers > in > German
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Translators
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Scriptwriters

Mürzzuschlag (Austria), 20-10-1946

Review: Elfriede Jelinek (1946) is an Austrian writer who has excelled primarily as a novelist and playwright. She has also cultivated essay and poetry, and translated from English. She is also known for her social activist facet and her commitment to the

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Popularisers of science
• Writers

White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (USA), 26-08-1918 — Newport News, Virginia (USA), 24-02-2020

Review: Katherine Johnson was born in West Virginia in 1918. From a young age she excelled in mathematics and her talent allowed her to study at the university despite racial segregation. She participated in the calculations of many NASA projects, first wi

Groups by dedication:

• Activists
• Educators
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > in > English

Missouri USA, 04-04-1928 — North Carolina, 28-05-2014

Review: Maya Angelou, whose landmark book of 1969, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” — a lyrical, unsparing account of her childhood in the Jim Crow South — was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century black woman to reach a wide general readershi

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Physicists
• Writers > in > French

París (Francia); 12-09-1897 — 17-03-1956

Review: Irene Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), physicist and chemist, daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, worked with her mother on the application of X-rays in medicine during World War I. She was awarded with the Nobel Prize in 1935 in cooperation with her husb

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek

72 — c. 130

Review: The work we have of her is directly related to her mission as Hadrian's chronicler during his trip to the Valley of the Kings. The news we have of her is provided by Julia herself in her work, in which she also gives us the exact date of that visit

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Humanistics > Philosophers

Emesa, 170 — Antioch, 217

Review: Empress of Syrian origin (170-217 AD), wife of Septimius Severus. She exerted a strong influence on her husband's decisions, taking an active part in the administration of the Empire. She strove for her sons to share the Principality, but after Car

Groups by dedication:

• Healthcare workers > Physicians
• Healthcare workers > Midwives

Emerita Augusta; 1st century

Review: Hispano-Roman physician of the 1st century AD, born in Merida or surroundings. In the National Museum of Roman Art (Merida), a marble funerary stele is preserved, dedicated to Julia Saturnina by her husband, highlighting her personal and profession

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists
• Activists > Pacifists
• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers
• Musicians > Composers
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Columnists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > in > Spanish

Barcelona; 16-03-1865 — 29-12-1943

Review: Outstanding intellectual of great public presence in her time; writer in Catalan and Spanish, composer, journalist, speaker, feminist, Catalanist and pacifist. She directed the monthly _Feminal_ magazine (1907–1917) and actively participated in the

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Architects
• Technologists > Inventors
• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists

b. Bellefonte, Pensilvania — d. 1943

Review: She was an American architect and inventor, known for being the first woman registered as an architect in Pennsylvania and for inventing the "K brick". In addition, she is the author of numerous designs and patents for various household essentials,

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Inventors
• Musicians > Instrumentalists > Pianists
• Writers > in > German
• Writers > in > English
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Scriptwriters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Actresses
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Fashion models

Vienna, 09-01-1914 — Florida (United States), 19-01-2000

Review: At the beginning of World War II, she and the composer George Antheil developed a patent for a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to overcome the threat of jamming by the Axis power

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Ecologists (activists)
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Montreal, Canada, 08-05-1970

Review: Naomi Klein is an author, journalist, and social activist. She has written five books criticizing the capitalist system, globalization, patriarchy or aggression against the environment. She is known for her analytical and activist work and is consi

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Textile artists

Kaunas (Lithuania), 30-03-1972

Review: Krasauskaite’s work builds on contemporary trends in pattern and asymmetry with designs that aspire to give the viewer an experience of motion, dimension, vibration, and luminescence. Brigita’s work sits at the intersection of practice and commerce

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Ceramic artist

Vilnius (Lithuania), 1956

Review: Jolanta Kvašytė is a creator of Lithuanian conceptual ceramics. She has authored numerous monumental mosaic sculpture compositions, ceramic paintings, fine plastic sculptures, interior art designs, garden ceramics and vases. She notes that she does

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Inventors
• Scientists > Chemists
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Popularisers of science

New Kensington (United States), 31-07-1923 — Wilmington (United States), 18-06-2014

Review: Stephanie Kwolek invented polyparaphenylene terephthalamide known as Kevlar, a type of plastic five times stronger than steel and fire resistant. Thanks to Kevlar, many lives have been saved, as it is used in bullet-proof waistcoats, firefighters'

Groups by dedication:

• Writers

Joniškis (Lithuania), 13-03-1886 — Kaunas (Lithuania), 01-12-1958

Review: Sofija Kymantaitė became an active participant in the public women's movement. At twenty-one, she participated in the first Lithuanian Women's Congress in Kaunas and read a report there.  During the First World War, Sofija Kymantaitė-Čiurlionienė,

Groups by dedication:

• Professionals / Other groups > Labourers

Spain; 1758 — 2016

Review: Female workers in tobacco factories who, in the 19th century, were one of the pioneering groups in the workers' struggle in Spain. They carried out protest movements such as riots or Luddite actions against the introduction of machines in the produ

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Physicists
• Humanistics > Intellectuals
• Humanistics > Philologists / Linguists
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Popularisers of science
• Writers > in > French
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Writers > Translators

Paris, France, 17-12-1706 — Lunéville, France, 10-09-1749

Review: Émilie du Châtelet was a French lady mathematician, physicist and philosopher who translated Newton's _Principia_ into French. She made significant contributions to the dissemination of the philosophies of Newton and Leibniz in France with his book

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Scientists > Geologists / Geophysicists > Seismologists

Osterbro, Copenhague, 13-05-1888 — Copenhague, 21-02-1993

Review: Inge Lehmann was a Danish mathematician who devoted his life to the study of seismology and geophysics. He discovered the existence of a solid part in the interior of the earth's liquid core which manifests itself in the fact that P-waves (primary

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Scientists > Astronomers
• Writers > in > French

París, Francia; 05-01-1723 — 06-12-1788

Review: Nicole Lepaute was a brilliant 18th-century French astronomer who devoted much of her life to calculating the trajectories of different celestial bodies. Her work, in which she considered Newton's theories, was of such quality that she came to pred

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen

Roma; c. 58 BCE — 29 CE

Review: Livia was one of the most remarkable women of antiquity. Her literary tradition has left us with contradictory, and sometimes biased, images of her. Being the wife of Augustus and mother of Emperor Tiberius, she had a role that no other woman had h

Groups by dedication:

• Healthcare workers > Physicians

Valencia, 13-02-1949

Review: Graduated in Medicine at the University of Valencia in 1978, she is a specialist in hematology and medical oncology at the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia. In 1986, she obtained her doctorate at the University of Valencia. She is curr

Groups by dedication:

• Professionals / Other groups > Murderesses

Gaul — Rome; d. 69

Review: Locusta, of Gallic origin, was an expert on poisons in ancient Rome. She acted as a trusted poisoner in the service of Agrippina, mother of Nero, poisoning Claudius; and later, at the orders of Nero, poisoning Britannicus, the son of Claudius. She

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Politicians
• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Travellers
• Humanistics > Archaeologists
• Writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers

Durham, United Kingdom, 14-07-1868 — Baghdad, Mandatory Iraq, 12-07-1926

Review: An archaeologist, traveller, diplomat and photographer, she studied Modern History at Oxford. She was fluent in eight languages, including Arabic. As a political administrator, she was responsible for the creation of the borders of the countries of

Groups by dedication:

• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Travellers

Afar Depression (Ethiopia); between 3500000 and 3200000 BCE

Review: Fossil of an Australophitecus afarensis, discovered in 1974 in the Afar region, Ethiopia. It is the skeleton of a female about 1 meter tall, weighing approximately 27 kg (in life), about 20 years old (wisdom teeth were just out) and who apparently

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• Technologists > Object designers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Drawer (drawing) > Illustrators
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Decorators / Set designers

Kidsgrove, England, 24-08-1873 — Glasgow, Scotland, 12-12-1921

Review: English-born artist who worked in Scotland and Liverpool, and whose work became one of the defining features of Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) during the 1890s. Frances Macdonald worked collectively with The Four but most collaborative wo

Groups by dedication:

• Musicians > Composers

Broxbourne, 19-03-1907 — Norwich, 11-11-1994

Review: Elizabeth Maconchy, of Irish descent, was particularly prominent in the field of chamber music, especially as a composer of thirteen string quartets. Her admiration for European music of the first half of the 20th century led her to dabble with d

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Architects
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Drawer (drawing)

Chicago; 14-01-1871 — 10-08-1961

Review: She was an architect, illustrator, blueprint designer and designer from the United States. She was born in 1871. She was one of the first woman to graduate in architecture from the prestigious Massachusetts Technological Institute. She co-designed

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Orators

Ivars d’Urgell, 13-11-1952 — Barcelona, 05-07-1998

Review: Maria-Mercè Marçal has the centrality that no other poetess had before in the Catalan tradition. She is an icon both for what her life represents, and for the seduction of her verses and the ability they show when expressing the experience of reali

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Biologists > Zoologists
• Writers > in > English

Chicago, 05-03-1938 — Amherst (Massachusetts), 22-11-2011

Review: We owe the theory of endosymbiosis to Lynn Margulis, a theory that explains the emergence of eukaryotic cells from primitive prokaryotic organisms. Lyn Margulis took up the evolutionary theories of late 19th century scientists such as Konstantin Me

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Scientists > Physicists

Titel (Serbia), 19-12-1875 — Zurich (Switzerland), 7-8-1948

Review: Mileva Marić studied physics and mathematics at the University of Zurich, where she met Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein's wife and also research and study partner, was virtually unknown to the world of science, and to history in general, until the

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Inventors
• Scientists > Physicists
• Writers > in > English
• Scientists > Mathematicians

Hampshire (Inglaterra), 1854 — Sussex (Inglaterra), 1923

Review: Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923), suffragette, electrical engineer, and inventor, was the first woman member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and the first to read her own paper. In 1902, she was proposed as a Fellow of the Royal Society b

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Architects
• Technologists > Object designers

Helsinki; 25-01-1894 — 13-01-1949

Review: Aino Marsio-Aalto played a key role in the modern architecture of her country, Finland, and in the work of her husband, Alvar Aalto.  Her interest in utilitarian, functional, practical issues, natural materials and mass-produced objects stands ou

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Object designers
• Technologists > Inventors
• Scientists > Alchemists
• Scientists > Chemists
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek

Alexandria (Egypt); c. 2nd century — c. 3rd century

Review: Considered one of the founders of alchemy and a significant contributor to practical science, Mary's legacy includes the invention of important laboratory devices such as the tribikos (a three-armed alembic for the distillation process), the kerota

Groups by dedication:

• Clerical or spiritual women > Nuns
• Clerical or spiritual women > Mystics
• Clerical or spiritual women > Theologists
• Writers > Autobiographers

Valldemossa, 05-01-1649 — Palma, 20-02-1700

Review: Dominican nun in the convent of Saint Catherine of Siena in Palma, she lived and wrote during the second half of the 17th century, an era of proliferation of the feminine writing in the monastic environment. She is one of the few figures of that ti

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Tarragona, 19-03-1811 — Barcelona, 01-07-1887

Review: Massanés is one of the most popular 19th-century poetesses. She wrote in Spanish and Catalan, and her work is assigned to Romantic currents and, from the 1850s on, to the Catalan Renaissance. She was an active participant in the recovery and dignif

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Chemists
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > in > Spanish

València, 1959

Review: She patented a paint for houses that incorporates a microencapsulation technology that allows delayed release of an insecticide for up to 18 months. In this way, painting can eliminate bedbugs whose bites transmit _Trypanosoma Cruzi_ , a protozoan

Groups by dedication:

• Activists
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Columnists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Drawer (drawing) > Cartoonists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Graphic artists

Pittsburgh, 01-08-1911 — Chicago, 06-12-1985

Review: Jackie Ormes is considered the first African-American cartoonist in the United States. She created four comic strips, _Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem_ (1937), _Candy_ (1945), _Patty Jo 'n' Ginger_ (1946), and _Torchy Brown, Heartbeats_ (1950). The

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Drawer (drawing)
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Graphic artists
• Scientists > Biologists

Frankfort, 02-04-1647 — Ámsterdam, 17-01-1717

Review: She illustrated and proved the development of insect metamorphosis. Her passion for nature and particularly for insects led her to combine science and art. She taught her trade to her daughters and created a workshop in which she taught a group of

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• Healthcare workers > Physicians
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Popularisers of science

2nd century; b. Grecia

Review:  Metrodora, a Greek physician based in Rome, possibly in the 2nd century AD, wrote a treatise on the diseases and cures of women. In the chapter dedicated to young women, she described _sitergia_ , a Greek word meaning refusal of food. A 12th centu

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• Technologists > Architects
• Technologists > Object designers

b. Svendborg — d. 25-06-2008

Review: Grethe Meyer is an architect and one of the most outstanding figures of Danish industrial design, she has won numerous awards for her works. Her work is both a systematic analysis of daily life and the minute details that it is made up of, such as

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Educators > School teachers
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Château de Vroncourt-la-Côte, 29-05-1830 — Marseille, 09-01-1905

Review: Writer, poetess and educator of 19th century France, she was a prominent figure in the period of the Paris Commune, both in its organization and in its development. She fought for the defense of the social revolution and is considered a precursor o

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Librarians
• Technologists > Archivists
• Humanistics > Philologists / Linguists
• Writers > in > Spanish

Paniza (Zaragoza), 30-03-1900 — Madrid, 22-01-1981

Review: María Moliner was a 20th century Spanish librarian, philologist and lexicographer. She studied at the Institución Libre de Enseñanza and at the University of Zaragoza, and she held important positions in the professional field of libraries and arch

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Abolitionists
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Biographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics

Barcelona; 10-07-1845 — 31-03-1919

Review: When she was fourteen, Dolors Monserdà attended the revival of the Floral Games in Barcelona. She was in the audience when a bomb went off at the _Liceu_ theatre in 1893; that same year, she published her first novel, _La Montserrat_. Her third nov

Groups by dedication:

• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Cultural agents
• Musicians > Instrumentalists > Pianists
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Columnists

Barcelona; 25-06-1892 — 26-07-1966

Review: Carme Montoriol (Barcelona, 1892–1966) is a Spanish translator, playwright, writer and pianist. A very active cultural figure in Barcelona in the 1920s and 1930s, she founded and directed the Lyceum Club, also became a Republican activist during th

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• Rulers > Politicians
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > Biographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Columnists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Madrid, 12-02-1905 — Toulouse, 14-01-1994

Review: Writer of novels, essays and newspaper articles. She studied philosophy and arts at Universitat de Barcelona, while she was affiliated to the National Confederation of Workers (CNT) and collaborated in anarchist publications, where she wrote about

Groups by dedication:

• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Cultural agents
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights

b. València — d. c. 1980

Review: Pilar Monzó Pons is one of the most important Valencian playwrights during the Second Spanish Republic and understands theatre as a fundamental tool for the consolidation of the Catalan Renaissance. For this reason, she will be involved in improvin

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Story writers

Ohio, 08-02-1931 — New York, 05-08-2019

Review: Toni Morrison was the only African American writer and one of the few women to have received the Nobel prize for literature. The announcement of her 1993 award cited her as a writer “who, in novels characterised by visionary force and poetic import

Groups by dedication:

• Writers
• Writers > Poets

Mažeikiai, Lithuania, 1927 — Chicago, USA, 2013

Review: Zinaida Nagytė-Katiliškienė published her works under the pseudonym Liūnė Sutema (meaning "Swamp in Twilight"), which perfectly describes the harsh landscape and dominating motifs of her poems. The poetess belongs **to poets of the landless generat

Groups by dedication:

• Writers
• Writers > Poets

Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), 16-11-1915 — California, 31-12-2011

Review: Alė was a Lithuanian writer, poet and prose writer and a public figure in Lithuanian society in the United States.

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists
• Activists > Pacifists
• Activists > Ecologists (activists)
• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Scientists > Physicists
• Scientists > Chemists
• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > in > English

Connecticut, 17-07-1819 — Massachusetts, 30-09-1888

Review: Eunice Newton Foote dedicated herself to research at home with the little knowledge of biology and chemistry that she had learned at school, achieving excellent results. In 1856, she was the discoverer -in an experiment carried out in her kitchen-

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Politicians
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Healthcare workers > Nurses
• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers

Florence (Italy), 12-05-1820 — East Wellow (England), 13-08-1910

Review: Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was a renowned British nurse and statistic. She was a pioneer of modern medicine. She used her knowledge of statistics in epidemiology and health statistics. She created "pie charts", a circular graphic or polar are

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Scientists > Physicists
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers

Erlangen (Germany), 23-03-1882 — Pennsylvania (USA), 14-04-1935

Review: Emmy Noether, German mathematician and physicist (Germany, 1882- USA, 1935) is considered to be the mother of abstract algebra. She made very important contributions to the formulation of the theory of general relativity, explaining the origin of p

Groups by dedication:

• Clerical or spiritual women > Spiritualists
• Activists
• Humanistics > Archaeologists
• Writers

Stockholm, 12-07-1923 — Benidorm, 21-01-2021

Review: She was one of the first women to direct archaeological excavations in the province of Alicante, at a time and in a very masculine professional world. She contributed significantly, despite her early retirement from archaeology, to research on anti

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers > Photojournalists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photography designers and technicians

Hoboken, New Jersey, 25-05-1895 — San Francisco, California, 11-10-1965

Review: American photojournalist whose reports from the 1930s in the United States became iconic images that went around the world and have reached our days as one of the best testimonies of the economic and social crisis that hit the country during the Gr

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• Women-at-arms > Pirates

County Mayo; 1530 — 1603

Review: Grace O'Malley was born in 1533, within one of the most powerful clans of her time. Her father, Owen Dubhdara O'Malley, was an Irish nobleman who inherited a large fleet from his family. He carried out commercial transactions and pressured fisherme

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• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen

Nola, 64 BCE — Roma, 11 BCE

Review: Octavia, an educated woman with enormous intelligence and an exceptional political nose, was one of the most admired women in Rome. In the events from the last years of the Republic, she played an important role in the alliances between the politic

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek

6th century BCE; b. Argos

Review: Telesilla was a lyrical poet of hymnic-religious or mythical themes, from the year 510 BC, who created the telesillean verse and fought against Cleomenes I in the Battle of Sepeia. The _Hybristika_ festival arose from this confrontation. She claime

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• Clerical or spiritual women > Abbesses
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• Clerical or spiritual women > Theologists
• Technologists > Architects
• Scientists > Natural philosophers / Naturalists
• Scientists > Chemists
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• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Popularisers of science
• Musicians > Composers
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Epistolographers
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• Writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Illuminators (books)
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Cultural agents
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers

Bermersheim, 16-09-1098 — Bingen, 17-09-1179

Review: She was one of the most versatile and influential women of the Middle Ages in 12th century Western Europe. She was a mystic, an abbess, a theologian, writer of an extensive collection of letters, religious texts and scientific books on plants and m

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• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Humanistics > Jurists / Lawyers

Constantinople; c. 500 — 548

Review: Byzantine empress (ca. 500 / 548 AD Constantinople). As the daughter of a Circensial family, she worked as an actress and a prostitute, but in the year 520 AD she met emperor Justinian, who married her and named her co-regent. She enjoyed enormous

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• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Humanistics > Intellectuals
• Humanistics > Philosophers
• Educators > School teachers
• Educators
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Popularisers of science

b. Crotona — d. c. 500 BCE

Review: Theano of Crotone made important contributions to Mathematics. Being married to Pythagoras, she developed treatises about regular polyhedrons, the golden ratio theory, cosmology and medicine. After Pythagoras' death, she moved on to run her own sch

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• Clerical or spiritual women > Nuns
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > in > Latin

Between 930 and 935 — c. 1002

Review: Hroswitha was a 10th-century German writer, considered to be the first Western author, male or female, to write plays in Latin since Late Antiquity. She was the author of comedies, in the manner of Terence, of great literary quality and centred on

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• Rulers > Vicereines / Lieutenants / Regents
• Women-at-arms > Militaries / Soldiers

5th century BCE; b. Halicarnassus

Review: The tyrant Artemisia I of Halicarnassus participated in the naval battles of Artemisium and Salamis as admiral of the fleet of King Xerxes of Persia, to whom she was an adviser, and the Greeks put a price on her head: _ten thousand drachmas for who

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek

Mytilene, Lesbos, between 650 and 610 BCE — Leucas, 580 BCE

Review: Born on the island of Lesbos, she is considered one of the first lyrical poets of the Western world. All that is known of her life was deduced from the work that has come down to us: poems and fragments drawn from late citations (indirect tradition

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• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek
• Writers > Poets
• Humanistics > Philosophers

6th century BCE; b. Lindos (Rodas)

Review: Poetess and philosopher born around 600 BC in the city of Lindos (Rhodes). She was the daughter of Cleobulus, one of the Seven Sages of Greece, who believed that women should receive a good education. She composed a kind of riddles in verse called

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• Humanistics > Philosophers
• Writers > Orators

Miletus, c. 470 BCE — Athens, c. 400 BCE

Review: She acquired her knowledge in Miletus -in the Ionian cities, boys and girls lived together in the public school and shared learning on an equal footing-. Because of her extreme expertise in the art of rhetoric and her ability to surround herself wi

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek

Between 550 and 450 BCE; b. Sicyon, Greece

Review: Praxila is, along with Sappho, Telesila of Argos and many other women poets of ancient Greece, a representative of women's poetry within the framework of archaic lyric poetry. She invented a new dactylic metre, the praxillium, and was highly valued

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek

Tanagra; b. 520 BCE

Review: Female author of popular poetry, both monodic and choral poems, noted for her great knowledge of local mythology. She is related to the poetess Mirtis, whose pupil she may have been, or to the poet Pindar, with whom she may have rivalled. Her datin

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek

Telos; 4th century BCE

Review: Lyrical poetess, precursor of Hellenistic poetry. Her style and command of hexameters, as well as her language, Doric, make her heiress of the Hippocratic or Coan school, where she probably studied. In her work, the influence of the great poetess S

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• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Scientists > Astronomers

b. Thessaly — d. c. 60 BCE

Review: Known as "she who makes the moon disappear", she is mentioned in the writings of Plutarch and in the scholia of Apollonius of Rhodes as an astronomer and as the daughter of Hegetor (or Hegemon) of Thessaly. However, her scientific authority was cal

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• Scientists > Geologists / Geophysicists

New York City, 1874 — Germantown (New York), 1963

Review: Ida Helen Ogilvie graduated in Zoology and Geology from Bryn Mawr College in 1900, and received her Ph.D. from Columbia University three years later. Then, she was hired by Barnard College, where she taught for much of her life, becoming a full pro

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• Humanistics > Musicologists
• Educators > Pedagogues
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters
• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Instrumentalists > Pianists
• Writers > in > Spanish

Valencia; 23-10-1920 — 02-09-2018

Review: She was a composer, folklorist and teacher of Spanish music. From the 1950s, she carried out extensive fieldwork to compile traditional Valencian music, highlighting it and making it known in numerous publications.

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• Scientists > Biologists > Zoologists

Gloucestershire, 11-05-1828 — St Albans, 19-07-1901

Review: She published reports and leaflets with advice and illustrations which, like Maria Sibylla Merian, she drew herself. Her drawings helped farmers and stockbreeders to identify harmful insects and the effects they produced. Despite this, she always s

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• Healthcare workers > Physicians
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > in > Spanish

Salamanca, 25-03-1952

Review: Medical doctor and cell biologist. Her field of research is endocrinology, molecular biology of development and pathophysiology of the nervous system. Her main research, both in the group she leads and in her work as a university professor, has foc

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• Scientists > Astronomers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Textile artists

Wendover, United Kingdom, 10-05-1900 — Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 7-12-1979

Review: Cecilia Payne was an Anglo-American astrophysicist who discovered the composition of stars. At the age of 24, in her thesis in 1925, she identified the amount of hydrogen and helium present in stars and proposed, for the first time, that stars were

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Medingenai (Lithuania), 08-03-1887 — Zidikai (Lithuania), 24-07-1930

Review: She is considered the pioneer of feminism in Lithuania. She believed the education of women and girls to be one of the primary responsibilities of her life. And while there was a relatively modest way, the Witch of Shatriya had enough ambition and

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > Catalan

Palma (Mallorca), 1827 — Barcelona, 1898

Review: She was one of the first writers of the Renaissance, a professional poetess, with a continuous and consolidated career. Her extensive production was recognized by her contemporaries and she was granted awards at the Floral Games in Barcelona on num

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• Technologists > Architects
• Technologists > Object designers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers
• Writers > Autobiographers

París; 24-10-1903 — 27-10-1999

Review: Charlotte Perriand is considered one of the most innovative designers in the 20th century. She was pioneer within the modern movement. Her artistic and technological vision has contributed to define the so-called "art of living", the idea of design

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• Healthcare workers > Physicians
• Healthcare workers > Midwives
• Healthcare workers > Herbalists

20th century BCE

Review: Peseshet, who lived during the Fourth Dynasty, is often considered to be the first known female physician of Ancient Egypt. 

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• Activists
• Educators
• Writers

Panevezys (Lithuania); 16-03-1861 — 14-06-1943

Review: Gabrielė was a Lithuanian educator, writer, and activist. Her pseudonym Bitė (Bee) eventually became part of her last name. Encouraged by Povilas Višinskis, she joined public life and started her writing career in 1890. She was the founder and chai

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• Activists > Pacifists
• Technologists > Inventors
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Biographers

New Rochelle, New York, 20-04-1892 — Roma (Italy), 24-01-1970

Review: Mary Phelps Jacob, better known as Caresse Crosby, is considered the inventor of the first bra that she patented in 1914, which was light, soft and comfortable, could be worn by women of different sizes and made it easier to practice sports that in

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists
• Humanistics > Economists
• Humanistics > Sociologists

Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, 22-01-1858 — Liphook, United Kingdom, 30-04-1943

Review: Beatrice Webb Potter researched inequalities and socialism that intended to finish with labour exploitation from a young age. Along with her husband, she wrote about cooperativism, syndicalism and the decline of capitalism. They took part in the Fa

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• Writers > in > Lithuanian
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Actresses
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Directors (performing arts)
• Writers > Story writers > Novelists

Kaunas, Lithuania, 12-08-1923 — Vilnius, Lithuania, 21-09-2007

Review: Pūkelevičiūtė said that she was not a “purebred” writer: “literature is my official husband” and theatre is my “lover”. She attended a drama studio and studied at the Conservatory in Kaunas, the capital of independent Lithuania, and made her succes

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > in > Lithuanian
• Plastic, visual and performing artists
• Writers > Story writers

Vilnius, Lithuania, 11-04-1966

Review: In 2017, Pukytė curated the 11th Kaunas Biennial, an international exhibition of site-specific monuments and non-traditional commemoration. In her visual art practice, she creates still and moving images and interventions, making use of the uncover

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• Writers > Story writers

El Pla del Penedès, 16-02-1988

Review: In her stories she addresses various topics such as disillusionment, frustration, fear, sadness, anger, hatred, resentment or revenge and gives voice to narrative voices of different generations. Her fight against gender violence is portrayed in a

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• Scientists > Biologists > Biochemists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics

Prague (Czech Republic), 15-08-1896 — Sant louis Misuri (USA), 26-10-1957

Review: Her works include the study of the enzymatic reactions that accompany the conversion of muscle glycogen into glucose, pyruvic acid and lactic acid (Cori cycle), the effects of hormones on enzymatic activity and the isolation for the first time of a

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• Writers > in > (Modern) Greek
• Writers > Poets

Athens; 19-06-1931 — 22-02-2020

Review: Literary critics include her in the second post-war generation, but she rejects labels and epithets. She has been compared to Emily Dickinson and called "the greatest Greek poet since Sappho" (Nikos Dimou), but she has an unclassifiable voice of he