Masterlist
This is a masterlist of all posts ever made on this blog.
It’s in alphabetical order and features some short info for you to navigate it easily.
And I’ve added pictures!
Amanirenas
ca. 60 BC – ca.10 BC, Sudan
One-Eyed Warrior Queen of Kush who kicked Rome’s butt
Bríet Bjarnhéðinsdóttir
1856 – 1940, Iceland
Pioneer of Women’s Rights
Changunak Antisarlook Andrewuk
1870 – 1948, USA
Inupiat ‘Queen of the Reindeer’ and richest woman in Alaska
Edith Cavell
1865 – 1915, Belgium
nurse who was executed for treason in WWI
Emma, Lady Hamilton
1765 – 1815, UK
artists’ muse who developed her own art form
Enheduanna
ca. 2300 BC, Iraq
first personally named author in all of history
Eudoxia, Aelia
ca. 377 – 404, Turkey
controversial Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire
Fatima al-Fihri
ca. 800 – ca. 880, Morocco
founded the world’s oldest existing university
Franca Viola
1948 – today, Italy
refused a reparation marriage
Gabriela Mistral
1889 – 1957, Chile
first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize of Literature
Helen and Elizabeth Cumming
1777 – 1874, ? – 1894, UK
founded an illicit distillery and made business flourish
Hipparchia of Maroneia
ca. 350 BC – 280 BC, Greece
philosopher who could not be bothered by tradition
Hortense Mancini
1646 – 1699, France/UK
duchess who could not be tamed
Ida Ferenczy
1839 – 1928, Hungary/Austria
Empress Sisi of Austria’s best friend
Indra Devi
1899 – 2002, India
brought yoga to the Western world
Jeanne Hachette
ca. 1454 – ?, France
key player in defending her city at age 18
Julie d'Aubigny
ca. 1670 – 1707, France
restless swordswoman and total badass
Katharina Henot
16th/17th century, Germany
postmaster who was burned as a witch
Kittie Smith
1882 – ?, USA
lost her arms at age nine but never her optimism
Lee Miller
1907 – 1977, USA/UK
model turned photographer, documenting WWII
Li Qingzhao
ca. 1084 – ca. 1155, China
revolutionary poet, collector of artifacts and dutiful wife
Lum Loy, Granny
ca. 1884 – 1980, Australia
businesswoman who survived three cyclones and a war
Manshuk Mametova
1922 – 1943, Kazakhstan
fought the Germans in WWII until her last breath
Maria Quitéria
1792 – 1853, Brazil
joined the army as a man, was found out and promoted
Marianne of Orange-Nassau
1810 – 1883, Germany
escaped a shitty marriage to be with the man she loved
Masiti, Dada
ca. 1810– 1919, Somalia
Muslim scholar and poet, living a self-determined life
Minna Canth
1844 – 1897, Finland
writer and activist ahead of her time, raised 7 kids on her own
Nanny, Queen
ca. 1686 – ca. 1755, Jamaica
Maroon leader and the bane of the British in Jamaica
Njinga Mbande
1583 – 1663, Angola
Mother of Angola and a thorn in the sides of the colonizers
Osh-Tisch and The-Other-Magpie
1854 – 1929, USA
women of the Crow tribe who fought at the Rosebud
Rose Lokissim
ca. 1955 – 1986, Chad
political prisoner who kept fighting for her cause
Shajar al-Durr
ca. 1220 – 1257, Egypt
Muslim sultan who stopped the 7th crusade
Siti binti Saad
1880 – 1950, Tanzania
known as the Mother of East African taarab music
Stephanie St. Clair
1886 – 1969, USA
gangster and community advocate at the same time
Susan La Flesche Picotte
1865 – 1915, USA
first Native American woman to earn a medical degree
Yaa Asantewaa
ca. 1840 – 1921, Ghana
leader of the final Ashanti rebellion against the British
