I hope this list of famous women becomes a sticky post as it is a tool in learning about women in history using your favorite search engine. Please feel free to suggest others for me to edit and add their names to this post. All American unless otherwise noted. PRE-1750 Joan of Arc~1412-1431 Anne Dudley Bradstreet Margaret Brent Anne Marbury Hutchinson Sarah Kemble Knight Lady Deborah Moody Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney Pocahontas 1750-1820 Hannah Adams Deborah Sampson Gannett Rebecca Gratz Mother Ann Lee Rebecca Pennock Peale Susanna Haswell Rowson Sacajawea (Bird Woman) Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1797-1851 - English Nancy Ward (Nanye' Hi) Phillis Wheatley Emma Hart Willard Patience Lovell Wright 1820-1880 Gertrudis (Tules) Barcelo Clara Barton Elizabeth Blackwell Isabelle (Belle) Boyd Olympia Brown Mary Ann Shadd Cary Nellie Cashman Lydia Maria Francis Child Fanny Jackson Coppin Dorothea Lynde Dix Abigail Scott Dunaway Elizabeth Lummis Ellet Jessie Benton Fremont Sarah Margaret Fuller Margaret Gaffney Haughery Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson Mother Joseph Elezabeth Palmer Peabody Vinnie Ream Harriet Tubman Victoria Clafin Woodhull Frances (Fanny) Wright 1880-1920 Jane Addams Elizabeth Alice Austen Senda Berenson Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) Evangeline Booth Annie Jump Cannon Jane (Jennie) Serepta Dean Mother Katherine Drexel Isabelle Eberhardt - 1877-1904 - Algerian Henrietta Howland Robinson Green Lou Henry Hoover Grace Carpenter Hudson Queen Liliuokalani Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood Juliette Gordon Low Annie Oakley Susan La Flesche Picotte Emily Price Post Gertrude Pridgett Rainey Hannah Greenebaum Solomon Gene Stratton-Porter Ida Minerva Tarbell Mary Church Terrell Lillian Wald Sarah Breedlove Walker Ida Wells-Barnett Sarah Winnemucca 1920-1950 Marian Anderson Mary McLeod Bethune Margaret Bourke-White Clara Bow Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway Irene Foote Caste Jacqueline Cochran Elizabeth (Bessie) Coleman Miriam Wallace Ferguson Lillian Moller Gilbreth Zora Neale Hurston Osa Leighty Johnson Jovita Idar de Juarez Helen Keller Anne Morrow Lindbergh Mary Margaret McBride Margaret Mead Georgia O'Keefe Dorothy Rothschild Parker Alice Paul Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich Frances Perkins Mary Velasquez Riley Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Florence Rena Sabin Margaret Louise Higgins Sanger Augusta Savage Anne Mansfield Sullivan Dorothy Thompson Florence Lois Weber Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
Thank you Lagan an ezerbet. I added the names to the list. Anne Roosavelt is already on the list. I have just finished reading short summaries on all these women. It is interesting to me how many of them made adaptations to a very prejudicial mens' society throughout history. Many of the Americans listed were involved in bettering education and getting the vote for women.
Kate Sheppard - vital player in getting the vote for NZ women in 1893 (the first whole country to grant women that right) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Sheppard
Anna Freud (1895-1982) - daughter of Sigmund Freud Oriana Fallaci (1929-2006) - Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer.
