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Madge Syers
We are now used to there being male and female versions of many sports; women’s football, women’s athletics and so forth. But in the very early part of the 20th [...]

Writers

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    Anna Akhmatova

    Anna Akhmatova was a Russian modernist poet and one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon. Besides poetry, she wrote memoirs, autobiographical pieces and [...]

Artists

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    Georgia O’Keeffe

    Georgia O’Keeffe, a pioneer of modern art, has been recognized as the Mother of American Modernism. She is best known for her large-format paintings of enlarged [...]

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    Beryl Burton

    Beryl Burton was an English cyclist who won more than 90 domestic championships and seven world titles. On 17 September 1967, at the UK National Time Trial, Beryl rode a staggering 277.25 miles in 12 hours around the lanes of Yorkshire. This was a world record for both men and women! It was two [...]

Scientists

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    Hedy Lamarr

    Hedy Lammar, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Austria, was considered by many as the most beautiful woman in the world, starring in countless films. Hedy grew up in Vienna [...]

Adventurers

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    Jane Digby

    Jane Digby was an English aristocrat who lived a wild and scandalous life with four husbands, many [...]

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  • Harriet Tubman

    Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian and campaigner for women’s [...]

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  • Mary Barbour

    At the height of the First World War, thousands of women, engineering and shipyard workers [...]

Humanitarians

  • Corrie ten Boom

    Ravensbrück concentration camp was unusual in that it was built solely for women. During World War [...]

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