Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers
• Writers > in > Lithuanian

Panevezys, Lithuania, 1960

Review: Giedra Radvilavičiūtė has started an innovative trend in women’s prose: she personifies everyday life, opens the female world and merges all this with the intertexts of serious culture. Her texts contain an unparalleled authenticity and exciting su

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Technologists > Librarians
• Humanistics > Philologists / Linguists > Lexicographers
• Humanistics > Philologists / Linguists
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers
• Educators > School teachers

Barcelona, 01-07-1913 — Sant Feliu de Llobregat, 04-12-2013

Review: This author stands out for her contribution to children's and young adults' literature, in particular for bringing poetry closer to children. Besides, she also wrote dramas and narrative, and she collaborated in regional publication and theatre gro

Groups by dedication:

• Clerical or spiritual women > Priestesses
• Clerical or spiritual women > Witches / Shamans

Cantabria; between 18830 and 18590 BCE

Review: A skeleton of a woman between 35 and 40 years old, found in the cave of El Mirón (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria), is known as Dama Roja (Red Lady). It is the first complete human burial from the Lower Magdalenian period to be discovered in the

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Architects
• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Object designers
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Graphic artists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Textile artists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Decorators / Set designers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Dressmakers / Fashion designers
• Professionals / Other groups > Workshop teachers

Berlín; 16-06-1885 — 14-12-1947

Review: Lilly Reich began her career as fashion designer, where she learned to appreciate materials, textures, and colours. Afterwards, this was useful for her, being devoted to furniture design, interior design and architecture. She was the first directo

Groups by dedication:

• Writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Cinema directors / Producers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Actresses
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Dancers

Berlin, 22-08-1902 — Pöcking, 08-09-2003

Review: Film-maker linked to the German Nazi regime in the 1930s, a period in which she made a series of documentaries of political material for the German National Socialism, which she later dissociated herself from, highlighting her artistic work and bec

Groups by dedication:

• Humanistics > Philologists / Linguists
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Scriptwriters

Palma, 1948

Review: Carme Riera is one of the most relevant figures of current Catalan literature. This author stands out because of the high quality of her production, in which she combines literary creation with research and education, always framed within the conte

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters

Barcelona, 10-10-1908 — Girona, 13-04-1983

Review: She was a well-rounded writer: she cultivated all literary genres, on top of journalism.  Mercè Rodoreda initiated her literary production with short stories and novels that, except for _Aloma,_ she would later reject. Between 1940 and 1950, while

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers
• Writers > Epistolographers

Valencia, c. 1479 — Madrid, 1546

Review: Hipòlita Roís de Liori, known as "the Sad countess of Palamós", as she signed her letters, was a noble from Aragon. She was the widow of Lluís de Requesens, governor of Catalonia, and she had two children. She lived in Valencia and Barcelona. She w

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Ecologists (activists)
• Technologists > Architects
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers > in > Danish

Frederiksberg, 09-10-1919 — Copenhague, 01-12-1993

Review: Anne Marie Rubin was one of the pioneers of Danish Urban Planning and a great role model to follow for the students of architecture in the 1950s. She was the first teacher of urban planning and one of the first to be given the title of “Urban Plann

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Astronomers
• Writers > in > English
• Activists > Feminists (activists)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA), 23-07-1928 — New Jersey (USA), 25-12-2016

Review: Astronomer from the United States, pioneer in measuring the rotation of stars within a galaxy, discovered that the velocities did not fit Newton's gravitational theory. Her work provided the first evidence for the existence of dark matter, which wa

Groups by dedication:

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

New York, 22-02-1937 — Tucson, 29-04-2011

Review: American writer and essayist, Joanna Russ was known for her science fiction and fantasy novels and stories, as well as for her essays and social activism dedicated to feminism. As a professor at the University of Washington, Russ won through her ca

Groups by dedication:

• Musicians > Composers

Helsinki, 1952 — París, 2023

Review: Finnish composer dedicated to the spectral study of the sound produced by traditional instruments, essentially from Nordic and Eastern culture. She has developed new compositional techniques, using live electronics and computer assistance. Her more

Groups by dedication:

• Humanistics > Historians
• Writers

Vilnius, Lithuania, 01-01-1974

Review: Kristina Sabaliauskaitė is a representative of Lithuanian or Lithuania-related historical fiction along with Sofija Tyzenhauzaitė de Šuazel-Gufjė, Vincas Pietaris, Ursula Wong, Grigory Kanovich, Kazys Boruta, Sigitas Parulskis, Antanas Šileika, Icc

Groups by dedication:

• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Travellers
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Autobiographers

Palma, Mallorca, 04-11-1869 — Llucmajor, Mallorca, 29-01-1958

Review: Salvà began composing poems in Catalan at the age of fourteen in the midst of the Renaissance and the recovery of the language. She is part of the Escola mallorquina which honoured her for her quality. She continued to write in the midst of the Nou

Groups by dedication:

• Women-at-arms > Militaries / Soldiers > Militiawomen
• Professionals / Other groups > Labourers

Villarejo de Salvanés, 21-04-1919 — Madrid, 17-04-2008

Review: Working class fighter who joined the Republican army to defend the legitimate government of the Second Spanish Republic and took part in the civil war as a dynamiter in the Workers' Militia of the Fifth Regiment, being at the front as just another

Groups by dedication:

• Humanistics > Historians
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Madrid, 23-06-1921 — València, 22-02-2009

Review: Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas is one of the benchmarks of post-war literature in Catalan language and, despite her invisibility and the difficulty to access her work over many years, her complete work has already been published (2021). _Mat èria de Br

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Politicians
• Humanistics > Jurists / Lawyers
• Professionals / Other groups > Social workers

Madrid; 17-07-1911 — 11-08-2007

Review: An essential post-war and Francoist figure, whose political work continued during the first years of democracy. From within the Franco regime, she focused on creating support mechanisms for minors and women who were victims of the war. She founded

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Dressmakers / Fashion designers

Roma (Italia), 10-10-1890 — París (Francia), 13-11-1973

Review: Her dedication to fashion made her one of the most recognized and famous designers of the 20th century. Her models were considered daring and surprising for the canons of her time, since many of them included extravagant elements. In addition to dr

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Politicians
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Technologists > Architects
• Technologists > Object designers
• Writers > Autobiographers

Viena (Austro-Hungarian Empire), 23-01-1897 — Viena (Austria), 18-01-2000

Review: She designed the Frankfurt kitchen, a modular kitchen to allow efficient working and to be built at a low cost.

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Scientists > Biologists > Botanists
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers
• Sportswomen > Tennis players

Lincoln (UK), 08-06-1858 — Cambridge (UK), 10-11-1931

Review: Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931) was a British mathematician specializing in geometry as well as co-editor of the magazine _"American Journal of Mathematics"_ and co-founder of the _American Mathematical Society_ , where she held the position of v

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Essayists

Mainz (Germany), 19-11-1900 — Berlín (Germany), 01-06-1983

Review: Anna Seghers' production is characterized by a marked social, political and feminist commitment. In her first stage, this commitment is manifested above all in her militant anti-feixism. Very soon, in 1933, she had to go into exile, and her work co

Groups by dedication:

• Writers

Detroit (USA), 17-11-1967

Review: Ruta Sepetys (also known as Rūta Šepetys; born November 19, 1967) is a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction. As an author, she is Number one in the New York Times, an international bestseller, and winner of the Carnegie Medal. She is a

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen

Palmyra, 240 — Rome, c. 274

Review: Zenobia was born in 240 AD in Palmyra. It is said that she was cultured and that she spoke all the languages of the East. She was the second wife of Odaenathus, proclaimed Imperator and Restorer of the East. After his assassination, Zenobia became

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Plastic, visual and performing artists

Badalona, 22-03-1990

Review: Maria Sevilla, poet, _performer_ and literary critic, is the author of three collections of poems and a plaquet. Her poetry reflects, above all, on the construction and representation of identities and on a series of contemporary violences, many of

Groups by dedication:

• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Travellers
• Humanistics > Intellectuals
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Biographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

London; 30-08-1797 — 01-02-1851

Review: Mary Shelley was a 19th-century British writer who wrote in the Romantic movement. She wrote novels, short stories, travelogues, biographies and poems, and she was also an editor. She is known worldwide for her novel _Frankenstein_ , which today is

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Object designers

Kreuztal, 04-01-1899 — Buchschlag, 25-09-1944

Review: Currently, toys and furniture designed by Alma Buscher are still very popular and are constantly produced around the world, in her original design or in versions that reveal the great influence and contemporariness of her ideas. Alma Buscher knew

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Pacifists
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Columnists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Newsreaders
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Communicators

Alcoi, 04-04-1943 — Barcelona, 13-01-2020

Review: Isabel-Clara Simó i Montllor was a Valencian novelist, teacher, journalist and activist settled in Catalonia. She started her literary career in 1978, when she won the Víctor Català Prize with her story collection _É s quan miro que hi veig clar_ a

Groups by dedication:

• Writers
• Writers > Poets

Priekule (Lithuania), 23-01-1897 — Vilnius (Lithuania), 27-11-1978

Review: Ieva Simonaitytė is a representative of the Mažoji Lietuva region (Small Lithuania - one of the regions in Lithuania) who felt the moral duty to become a chronicler of her native land. The writer of fascinating biography and strong character immort

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters

Kalodnaje (Belarus), 05-11-1827 — The foot of the Pyrenees, the South of France (in 1875 remains were moved to Pinsk and re-buried there), 02-01-1874

Review: Elena Skirmantaitė-Skirmantianė (Helena Skirmuntt) (1827-1874) lived a short but interesting and sapid life. Her upbringing of her in a well-known and rich family made it possible for her to receive proper education in arts, which was mostly inacce

Groups by dedication:

• Musicians > Composers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists

Sidcup (Kent), 22-04-1858 — Hook Heath (Woking), 08-05-1944

Review: English composer, writer and activist. Although persistently ignored by the musical canon, she was a significant and vital voice on the British scene of her time. She was acclaimed for her music, her highly controversial autobiographical writings,

Groups by dedication:

• Musicians > Instrumentalists
• Musicians > Singers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Dancers

Chattanooga, Tennessee, 02-06-1904 — New York, 30-05-1956

Review: Valaida Snow was an important jazz and vaudeville trumpeter, singer and dancer of the interwar period. In her heyday she spent long periods in Europe, and like Josephine Baker helped to spread jazz and jazz dance on the continent. Her quality earne

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Chemists

Torres de Segre (Lérida), 01-01-1943 — Blanes (Gerona), 15-09-2019

Review: Montserrat Soliva Torrentó received her doctorate in Chemical Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. After working for six years in the chemical-textile laboratory of artificial fibers of the SAFA company, she devoted another thirty

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers
• Technologists > Architects

Reisicht, 28-01-1903 — Krimpen aan deen IJssel, 18-11-1988

Review: Lotte Stam-Beese was a German architect and Urban Planner who helped in reconstructing Rotterdam after the second world war. She attended the Bauhaus school where she studied with Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Joost Schmidt and Gunta Stölzl and

Groups by dedication:

• Writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Graphic artists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Drawer (drawing) > Illustrators

Kaunas (Lithuania), 1947

Review: Jūratė Stauskaitė is one of the representatives of the “female” generation of artists in Lithuania who has brought a strong element of emotionality to Lithuanian graphics through a metaphorical language of ambiguous symbols. In her works, Stauskait

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Columnists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Communicators
• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)

Ohio, 25-03-1934

Review: Gloria Steinem is a leading American feminist who represents an active part of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States from the end of the 20th century to the present. She was the founder of the women's magazine _Ms._ which was a windo

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Biologists > Geneticists
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > in > English

Cavendish, Vermont, 07-07-1861 — Baltimore, 04-05-1912

Review: Nettie Maria Stevens, American geneticist (1861-1912) was the first researcher to describe the chromosomal bases that determine sex.  She discovered, from her research with the beetle _Tenebrio molitor,_ that chromosomes known as X and Y were res

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Lighting designers and technicians
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Textile artists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Decorators / Set designers
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Educators > School teachers
• Professionals / Other groups > Workshop teachers

Munich,German Empire, 05-03-1897 — Männedorf, Switzerland, 22-04-1983

Review: The fabrics in Gunta Stölzl loom are characterised for the intricate artisanal work they required and the great variety of knots used. Her carpets emit rhythm and an accurate composition, and are not limited to a lineal or vertical scheme. There ar

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > Latin

1st century BCE; b. Roma

Review: Sulpicia lived in Rome during the reign of Augustus, she was the daughter of the orator Servius Sulpicius Rufus and the niece of Marcus Valerius Messalla. She frequented intellectual circles and is the only Roman poetess of the Classical period who

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Engineers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > in > English

Dunstable (Massachusetts), 03-12-1842 — Massachusetts, 30-03-1911

Review: She was the first woman to be member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. She worked as a consultant in industrial chemistry and conducted some research on water pollution and on the provision of potable water in a new l

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Scientists > Astronomers
• Scientists > Physicists
• Writers > in > English

Lancaster, 04-07-1868 — Cambridge, 12-12-1921

Review: By studying the Cepheid variables in the Small Magellanic Cloud, which are all approximately the same distance from Earth, Henrietta Swan Leavitt determined in 1908 the absolute magnitude of stars. Her studies concluded that these stars changed bri

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Stage designers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Drawer (drawing) > Illustrators
• Writers > Story writers > Novelists
• Writers > in > English

Galesburg (Illinois), 25-8-1910 — Nueva York, 31-1-2012

Review: She gained recognition as a painter and sculptor. Her erotic images broke the cliché of women reduced to the role of muses for creators. Returning to her home country, Tanning had the encouragement of poet James Merrill to start writing. The artis

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Inventors
• Scientists > Physicists
• Scientists > Chemists
• Scientists > Biologists > Biophysicists
• Writers > in > English

Budapest (Hungary); 12-12-1900 — 02-12-1995

Review: Mária Telkes was a prolific inventor of thermoelectric devices, known for being a pioneer in the development of solar technology. She devised a solar heating system for the Dover House, an innovative home designed by architect Eleanor Raymond (1887

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Geologists / Geophysicists
• Scientists > Oceanographers

Michigan, 30-07-1920 — Nyack (Nueva York), 23-08-2006

Review: In 1948, thanks to her multifaceted curriculum, she began working with W. M. Ewing (1906-1974) at the _Lamont-Doherty_ Geological Observatory at Columbia University. Bruce C. Heezen (1924-1977), a student from the University of Iowa, joined the gro

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Geologists / Geophysicists

b. Washington D.C. — d. 17-08-1991

Review: In 1916 she became a teacher at the _Normal School for Coloured Girls_. For a time, she taught while pursuing a Bachelor of Arts at _Howard University_ , which she completed in 1923.  She then served as an assistant professor at the _Normal Schoo

Groups by dedication:

• Healthcare workers > Physicians
• Healthcare workers > Pharmacists

Tlos; 1st century BCE

Review: Physician of recognized prestige who practiced her profession around 100 B.C. in the same way as her male colleagues, treating both women and men and practicing the medicine of her time at a high level. Her contributions in the medical and pharmaco

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Writers > Poets

18th century

Review: The work, in Catalan, of this poetess that lived in the 18th century integrates into the so-called laudatory poetry of preliminaries, where a remarkable number of women at the Iberian peninsula contributed among the 16th and 18th centuries. The lau

Groups by dedication:

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

Bari, 1964

Review: She graduated in physics and is now a doctor and professor in applied chemistry. She has participated in the development of a millimetric transistor (SiMoT) capable of measuring a single protein molecule. The development of SiMoT has been carried o

Groups by dedication:

• Educators > Pedagogues
• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Instrumentalists > Pianists
• Musicians > Instrumentalists

Steinsaltz (Alsacia), 17-08-1846 — París, 04-02-1925

Review: Marie Jaëll was an excellent pianist from childhood. Although she composed for voice and instrumental ensemble, she is noted for her pedagogical work with the creation of the Jaëll Method for teaching music, which revolutionised piano technique at

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Abolitionists
• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists
• Professionals / Other groups > Slaves

Dorchester, Maryland, USA, c. 1820 — Auburn, New York, USA, 10-03-1913

Review: She was born in Maryland, between 1820 and 1830. She devoted her life to fighting for the freedom of the black population, first as a slave and then as a fugitive in the North. She was an active participant in the liberation of slaves through a net

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Architects
• Technologists > Object designers

Lushan, Jiangxi, China, 14-07-1920 — Greenbraer, California, USA, 27-12-2011

Review: Geometry will be the base for Anne Tyng to express herself, as well as its combination with fields such as mathematics, biology and engineering. The multiple combinations offered by geometry give Tyng a very flexible tool that will be essential in

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Biologists
• Writers

Barcelona, 25-08-1956

Review: Anna Veiga Lluch is a biologist, researcher and university lecturer, specialising in assisted reproduction, clinical embryology, reproductive genetics and bioethics, as well as in the study of stem cells and their clinical applications in the treat

Groups by dedication:

• Educators > Pedagogues
• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Instrumentalists > Pianists
• Musicians > Singers
• Musicians > Music arrangers
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Cultural agents

París; 18-07-1821 — 18-05-1910

Review: Pauline reached the best music theatres all over Europe, including the St. Petersburg Opera, bringing Western music to Russia and vice versa. Her voice, of enormous extension, is also remarkable for its agility, phrasing, technique and remarkable d

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen

Gades or Rome, 86 — Rome, 137

Review: Vibia Sabina was the daughter of Matidia the Elder and the grandniece of Trajan. At the age of eleven she married the future emperor Hadrian for political convenience. She accompanied her husband on trips around the empire and was friends with the

Groups by dedication:

• Writers
• Writers > Story writers

Lazdijai (Lithuania), 16-02-1943 — Alytus (Lithuania), 11-10-2014

Review: She was born into the family of a veterinarian in 1943. From 1960-1965 she studied Lithuanian language and literature at the Faculty of History and Philology of Vilnius University. Despite the usual canons of the genre, Vilimaitė immediately create

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Inventors
• Scientists > Biologists > Zoologists
• Writers > Essayists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Graphic artists
• Writers > in > French
• Writers > in > Italian

Juillac; 24-09-1794 — 25-01-1871

Review: She can be considered a marine biologist and naturalist. She was the first person to use aquariums for research in marine environments. She created different aquariums with various materials depending on the size of the molluscs under study. She pr

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Politicians
• Scientists > Geologists / Geophysicists
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics

Barcelona; 19-06-1927 — 21-11-2014

Review: Graduated with honours in Natural Science by the University of Barcelona in 1949. In 1956, she read her thesis, which awarded her the University of Barcelona Doctorate Extraordinary Prize in 1959 and the Premio Leonardo Torres Quevedo by the CSIC (

Groups by dedication:

• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers

Valentia Edetanorum; c. 90 — 2nd century

Review: Viria Acte was the owner of a successful workshop that manufactured statues. Despite her humble beginnings -it seems that she was a slave who was later manumitted- she amassed an important patrimony and was a great benefactor for the city, which re

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Inventors

b. Nueva York — d. c. 1900

Review: American environmental engineer who invented different systems to alleviate pollution in large cities. In 1789, she developed a system that minimized the effects of smoke from industries by diverting emissions to water tanks where pollutants were r

Groups by dedication:

• Activists
• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Instrumentalists
• Musicians > Singers
• Musicians > Music arrangers

Tyron, North Carolina, 21-02-1933 — Carry-le-Rouet, 21-04-2003

Review: Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, arranger, pianist and civil rights activist. Her eclectic oeuvre includes the genres of jazz, blues, rhythm and blues and soul.

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists
• Educators > School teachers
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Mississippi, 16-07-1862 — Illinois, 25-03-1935

Review: Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, also known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist and activist. She was part of the suffrage movement and was co- founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People dedicated to the defenc

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Computer scientists
• Technologists > Inventors
• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Writers > in > English
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors

Virginia EE.UU., 27-10-1930 — Sutherland, EEUU, 17-1-2026

Review: Gladys Mae West is an American mathematician known for her contributions to the mathematics underlying Global Positioning Systems, better known by its acronym GPS (Global Positioning System). Her research is extremely useful for satellite geodesy.

Groups by dedication:

• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Instrumentalists

Warsaw, 14-12-1789 — St. Petersburg, 25-07-1831

Review: Maria Agata Szymanowska, Polish pianist and composer had a musical career that foreshadowed the broader trend in 19th century Europe of the pianist/composer/virtuoso. She toured triumphantly in many European countries. Her skill as a performer favo

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Politicians
• Women-at-arms > Guerrilla fighters
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Humanistics
• Educators
• Professionals / Other groups > Labourers

Spain; c. 1939 — c. 1950

Review: The women imprisoned during Franco's regime for having had any relationship with the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War were much more than prisoners related to the war, they were political prisoners who represented the model of women that Fr

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Translators
• Plastic, visual and performing artists
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers

Sant Feliu de Guíxols, 12-04-1960 — Palamós, 19-1-2024

Review: Ester Xargay is a multifaceted author and a cultural agitator who has organized all kinds of _happenings_ and demonstrations in the public space. In her work, based on provocation, play and experimentation, the various forms of expression dialogue

Groups by dedication:

• Activists
• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Humanistics > Philosophers > Philosophers (logic)
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers > Essayists
• Humanistics > Philosophers

Pruzhany (Belarus), 31-01-1896 — Moscow (Russia), 24-10-1966

Review: Sofya Aleksandrovna was a Russian mathematician of Jewish origin. She directed the Logics Department at Moscow's State University, promoting the development of this discipline in the Soviet Union. Sophia's style of learning spread to all Soviet hi

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Textile artists

Briedziunai, Ukmerge county, Lithuania, 04-04-1933 — Vilnius (Lithuania), 17-06-1999

Review: Kazimiera Zimblytė (Kazė) is a Lithuanian artist, painter, creator of collages and art instalations, abstractionist. She is also credited with the development of one of the most radical branches of abstract material painting in Lithuania during the

• Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal (de) Saint Phalle (Niki de Saint Phalle)

Types of works:

• Graphic work

Date of production: 1974

Genres:

• Art > Sculpture

• Aconia Fabia Paulina

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 384

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry

• Marija Biruté Alseikaitė-Gimbutienė (Marija Gimbutas)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 2002

Genres:

• Literature
• Literature > Narrative

• Eleanor Antin

Types of works:

• Audiovisual
• Graphic work

Date of production: 2007

Genres:

• Art > Painting
• Art > Sculpture
• Art > Photography
• Art > Drawing
• Art > Performance
• Art > Installation

• Gracia Baptista

Types of works:

• Audiovisual
• Score

Date of production: 1557

Genres:

• Music > Instrumental music

• Julija Benešivičiūtė (Žemaitė)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 1889

Genres:

• Literature
• Literature > Narrative
• Literature > Narrative > Novel

• Marianne Brandt-Liebe

Types of works:

• Graphic work

Date of production: 1928

Genres:

• Art > Object design

• Marianne Brandt-Liebe

Types of works:

• Graphic work

Date of production: 1924

Genres:

• Art > Object design

• Marianne Brandt-Liebe

Types of works:

• Graphic work

Date of production: 1929

Genres:

• Art > Architecture > Architectural design
• Art > Photography

• Ana Caro Mallén de Torres

Types of works:

• Text
• Audiovisual

Date of production: 1640

Genres:

• Literature > Dramatic genre > Comedy
• Literature > Dramatic genre > New comedy

• Anna Comnena

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 1148

Genres:

• Literature > * Literature for didactic purposes

• Cornelia (mother of the Gracchi)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 123 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Epistle / Letter

• Telesilla of Argos

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 500 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry

• Theodora of Byzantium

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: Between 535 and 545

Genres:

• Literature > Didactic or educational literature

• Theano of Crotone

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 530 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Epistle / Letter

• Beatriz de Dia (Countess of Die)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 1212

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry
• Literature > Poetry
• Literature

• Hroswitha of Gandersheim

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 955

Genres:

• Literature > Dramatic genre > Comedy

• Sappho of Lesbos (Sappho of Mytilene)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 600 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry

• Cleobulina of Lindos

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 550 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry

• Praxilla of Sicyon

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 400 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry

• Corinna of Tanagra

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 400 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry

• Erinna of Telos

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 4th century BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry

• Janina Degutytė

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 1962

Genres:

• Literature
• Literature > Poetry

• Egeria

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 381

Genres:

• Literature > Narrative > Short story
• Literature > Autobiographical literature > Diary
• Literature > Epistle / Letter

• Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

Types of works:

• Audio
• Score

Date of production: 2019

Genres:

• Music > Instrumental music

• Alice Ida Antoinette Guy (Alice Guy-Blaché)

Types of works:

• Audiovisual

Date of production: 1912

Genres:

• Cinema > Featurette

• Alice Ida Antoinette Guy (Alice Guy-Blaché)

Types of works:

• Audiovisual

Date of production: 1896

Genres:

• Cinema > Featurette
• Cinema

• Alice Ida Antoinette Guy (Alice Guy-Blaché)

Types of works:

• Audiovisual

Date of production: 1905

Genres:

• Cinema > Short film

• Hortensia

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 42 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Didactic or educational literature > Speech

• Julia Balbilla

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 130

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry

• Carme Karr i Alfonsetti (Joana Romeu; L’Escardot; Una liceista; Xènia.)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 1907

Genres:

• Literature > Journalism > Article > Leading article

• Brigita Krasauskaite (Krasauskaitė) (Briga)

Date of production: 2016

Genres:

• Art
• Art > Textile arts

• Sofija Kymantaitė-Čiurlionienė

Types of works:

• Text

Genres:

• Literature
• Literature > Narrative
• Literature > Narrative > Short novel

• Frances Macdonald McNair

Types of works:

• Graphic work

Date of production: 1910

Genres:

• Art > Painting