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

Tarragona, 01-02-1918 — Barcelona, 09-09-2014

Review:   Montserrat Abelló is a Catalan poet, translator and feminist militant. She began her public career when she was more than forty years old and after spending twenty years in exile. She is the author of twelve collections of poems, plus literary...

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > Latin

Roma; c. 300 — c. 384

Review: Roman poet and aristocrat of the 4th century AD. Like her husband, she occupied a prominent position in the defense of the mystical and oriental cults of the Roman religion. Although she has always been related to him in the public sphere, she was ...

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• Activists
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers

Tuscumbia. Alabama, 27-06-1880 — Easton. Connecticut, 01-06-1968

Review: Helen Keller was an American educator, advocate for the blind and deaf, and co-founder of the ACLU. Stricken with illness at the age of 2, Keller became blind and deaf. Starting in 1887, Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, helped her make tremendous p...

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• Writers > Poets

Valencia; 12th century

Review: Andalusian author who, much like her contemporaries, represented a powerful feminine voice who discussed, flattered, appreciated and understood composition and metrical techniques. Her verses are written in a classical eastern genre, the qasida, wh...

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Drawer (drawing)

The Escala; 11-09-1869 — 27-01-1966

Review: Caterina Albert was a novelist, storyteller, playwright and poet. In her work, she continues the Catalan literary tradition written by women, although like many other European female writers at the time, she hid behind the male pen- name "Víctor Ca...

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• Humanistics > Intellectuals
• Writers > Story writers
• Clerical or spiritual women > Spiritualists

c. 1500 — c. 1560

Review: Valencian woman in the 16th century, married to lawyer Bartolomé Monfort. She founded the parish of l’Assumpció de la Verge, known as Col·legi de Na Monforta, in the street of Les Barques in Valencia. Sources indicate that she wrote the "Constituti...

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• Writers
• Humanistics > Archaeologists
• Humanistics > Historians

Vilnius (Lithuania), 23-01-1921 — Los Angeles (USA), 02-02-1994

Review: Marija Gimbutienė, the most outstanding Lithuanian scientist who gained worldwide recognition - created a unique field of science and discovered and described the hitherto unexplored civilization of Old Europe. Her scientific ideas substantially im...

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• Educators > Pedagogues
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Translators

Zaragoza; 1749 — 1833

Review: Josefa Amar y Borbón was a pedagogue, writer and defender of women’s rights in the 18th century. Her figure is renowned because of her desire for self- improvement, against enlightened society. Equal opportunities for men and women, is one of her s...

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• Humanistics > Philologists / Linguists
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Writers > in > Catalan

Vic, 09-03-1930 — Figueres, 23-04-1999

Review: She was born in the Greco-Latin Mediterranean tradition, poet, novelist, Hellenist and literary critic, we can affirm that the great axes that mark her work are the classical world, the autobiographical experience, the arts and the ethical commitme...

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• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Patronesses
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Writers > Autobiographers

Szczecin (Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia), 02-05-1729 — Saint Petersburg (Russian Empire), 17-11-1796

Review: Empress Catherine II of Russia came from the Prussian aristocracy and at the age of 15 was betrothed to the future Tsar Peter III of Russia. She became empress in 1762 after the deposition of Peter III, a government she held for 34 uninterrupted ye...

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• Writers > Story writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Drawer (drawing)
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Stage designers
• Writers > Autobiographers

New York, 27-02-1935

Review: Eleanor Antin was born in New York in 1935. She is considered one of the most influential artists to emerge from the feminist art movement of the 1960s and 1970s and one of the most respected conceptual artists. Besides her work in photography, she...

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• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > Poets

Barcelona; 06-07-1889 — 17-02-1976

Review: Clementina Arderiu is one of the many female voices that appear in Catalan literature during the first half of the 20th century. She was related to Maria Antonia Salvano, a writer with whom she wrote, and Rosa Leveroni, a younger poet with whom she...

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• Scientists > Chemists
• Writers > in > English

Belfast (Tennessee), 1939

Review: She obtained a patent for a method of enhancing underexposed photographic negatives. This method has been used by NASA and the medical industry and earned her the title of National Inventor of the Year in 1978.

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• Scientists > Biologists > Geneticists
• Scientists > Biologists > Zoologists

Krefeld (Germany), 14-05-1899 — Edinburgh (United Kingdom), 17-03-1994

Review: Charlotte Auerbach is also known as the "mother of chemical mutagenesis" for her research on the effects of mustard gas used in the two world wars as a chemical weapon. Charlotte showed that this gas caused mutations in the fruit fly (Drosophila ...

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• Writers > in > German
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers
• Writers > Epistolographers

Txernivtsí/ Bucovina, 11-05-1901 — Düsseldorf, 03-01-1988

Review: Rose Ausländer's biography shows the profound changes that took place in Europe and the world throughout the 20th century, and which had a special significance for Jews in Europe. Coming from Eastern Europe, Ausländer witnessed the collapse of the ...

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• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Computer scientists
• Writers
• Writers > in > English

Bratislava, 28-05-1933

Review: Graduated in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Slovakia and in Computer Science at Stanford University (USA), her current studies focus on artificial intelligence, biosystems and computational biology. Her research has been ve...

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• Clerical or spiritual women > Nuns
• Writers > Poets

València; c. 1640 — c. 1700

Review: Sister Laura de San José, religious name of Laura Barberà, professed in the Dominican convent of Our Lady of Bethlehem. She was a poetess. Among the different authors known in the Valencian territory during the modern period, this nun wrote one of ...

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Abolitionists
• Professionals / Other groups > Slaves
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers

Swaterkill, New York, 1797 — Battle Creek, Michigan, 26-11-1883

Review: She was an abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery but escaped with her daughter in 1826. After going to court to get her son back, she became the first black woman to win a lawsuit against a white man. She is well kno...

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• Writers

Plunge (Lithuania), 31-05-1845 — Marijampole (Lithuania), 07-12-1921

Review: She was born in the XIX century and started a writing career when she was 40. In those times, it was pretty late. But she was one of the first women who started talking about women's situation in families and that those women experience violence fr...

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists

València; 14-05-1925 — 15-03-2011

Review: Poetess, novelist, storyteller and columnist. Although Maria Beneyto started her career during Francoism, she published in Valencian and Spanish. Her poetry evolved from realism denouncing linguistic, genre, social class or political ideology injus...

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• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Travellers
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Musicians > Instrumentalists
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Biographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Girona, 29-10-1892 — Berga, 03-09-1974

Review: Aurora Bertrana i Salazar was a writer and musician. She lived, studied and worked in France and Switzerland. Her stay in Polynesia was the beginning of her activity as a writer. The writer Carmen Karr transmitted to her the interest in feminism. I...

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• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Travellers
• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Expeditionaries
• Scientists > Natural philosophers / Naturalists
• Humanistics > Geographers
• Writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers

Boroughbridge Hall (Yorkshire), England, 15-10-1831 — Edinburgh (Scotland), 08-10-1904

Review: Middle-class traveller who wrote several travel books. Her numerous trips, publications and observations made her the first woman to be allowed to join the Royal Geographical Society. During her last years, she decided to study medicine and give a ...

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• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Singers
• Musicians > Lyricists

Amory. Mississipi, 01-04-1897 — Los Angeles, 10-08-1948

Review: Lucille Bogan was an African-American blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, when the genre was first emerging. She became known for the references to sex in her songs, many of which she composed and wrote herself, which were explicit in contrast to ...

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > in > Catalan

Tortosa, 10-03-1933

Review: Librarian by profession, Zoraida Burgos is a poet and narrator of children's and youth literature in Catalan. She has been considered the leading female voice in the post-war literature of the Terres de l'Ebre. Initially she is inscribed to histori...

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• Technologists > Computer scientists
• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Translators

London; 10-12-1815 — 27-11-1852

Review: [Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure ...

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• Rulers > Politicians
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)
• Educators > Pedagogues
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Columnists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Scriptwriters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Stage designers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Actresses

Barcelona; 03-03-1918 — 02-10-1991

Review: Maria Aurèlia Capmany (1918-1991) was a Catalan writer, pedagogue and politician. With a modern vision and a vital attitude towards the world, the author questioned reality and reflected on it critically, not only in her teaching, but also in her w...

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > in > Spanish
• Professionals / Other groups > Slaves

Granada, Sevilla or Utrera, c. 1590 — Sevilla, c. 1649

Review: Professional Spanish playwright belonging to the querelle des femmes. She used her plays to defend the right to education and autonomy for women. She was an adoptive daughter to Gabriel Caro de Mallén (who had connections in the royal family) and A...

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• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Pacifists
• Activists > Ecologists (activists)
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > in > Spanish
• Writers > in > French
• Writers > Story writers > Novelists
• Writers > Story writers > Short-story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Stage designers

Lancashire, England, 6-4-1917 — Ciudad de México, 25-5-2011

Review: Leonora Carrington, British by birth but Mexican at heart, is undoubtedly one of the leading figures of 20th-century art. She was a leading representative of the surrealist movement and its greatest critic. She was a multifaceted artist with a larg...

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• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Eastbourne, 07-05-1940 — London, 16-02-1992

Review: Angela Carter was a writer, novelist, and journalist who rejected being identified with a particular group. She wrote at a time in which English literature was dominated by moderate social realists, but she played with poor reputation genres and ma...

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• Writers > in > English
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers > Photojournalists

c. 1970

Review: New York photographer who has made photo reports all over the world, portraying situations such as natural disasters, systemic violence against women, refugee crises, famines or wars, in addition to dealing with other less extreme topics, such as f...

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• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Humanistics > Historians
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Patronesses
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek
• Healthcare workers > Physicians

Constantinople; 1083 — 1153

Review: Anna Comnena (1083-1153), daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus and Irene Ducas, was heir to the throne until her brother, the future John II, was born. The women in her family circle provided her with a great deal of knowledge and s...

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• Educators
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Writers > in > Latin

Rome, 189 BCE — Misenum, 110 BCE

Review: Born in 189 BC, she was the daughter of Scipio Africanus and Aemilia Paulla Tertia, who participated in the riot to abolish the Oppian Law. The Scipios directed cultural life and attached importance to the education of their women. She was married ...

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers

Almendralejo (Badajoz), 12-12-1820 — Lisboa, 15-01-1911

Review: Carolina Coronado was a self-taught writer of the Spanish Romanticism, whose mentor was Juan Eugenio de Hartzenbusch, who encouraged her to publish her poems and even prefaced her collection of 37 poems, published in 1843 ( _Poes ías_). She also cu...

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• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Educators > Pedagogues
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Autobiographers

Occitania; c. 810 — c. 843

Review: Duoda, Countess of Barcelona and Girona and Duchess of Septimania, was born c. 810 and died c. 843. She was married to Bernard of Septimania, who had a daughter and two sons, who were held hostage for political reasons. The Liber manualis (Manual f...

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• Activists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers
• Educators
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters
• Writers > in > Spanish
• Writers > in > English

Río de Janeiro, 09-05-1979

Review: World-renowned Brazilian photographer who combines photography with sociological research and public participation in the defence of human rights. She is the creator of the photographic project Humanae: a collection of portraits that reveals the di...

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Madrid, 01-11-1850 — Gijón, 05-05-1923

Review: Playwright, feminist, mountaineer, poetess, regenerationist, freethinker, female mason, poultry farmer, columnist, exiled, iberist, puritan, pro- socialist, theatre producer, self-taught, deist, republican, music lover, traveller, publicist, etc. ...

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• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Cultural agents
• Writers > Poets

Xàtiva?, 1435 — València, 1459

Review: An intellectual and poetess born into the Borgia family. She was, specifically, the daughter of Jofré de Borja and Isabel de Borja and had 4 siblings, including Roderic de Borja, the future Pope Alexander VI. She was supposedly born in Xàtiva in 14...

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• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Rulers > Vicereines / Lieutenants / Regents
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Patronesses
• Writers > Epistolographers

Segovia, 1401 — València, 1458

Review: Maria of Castile and Lancaster was a queen and lieutenant who governed alone during twenty-six years because her husband, Alfonso V of Aragon, went to Naples. Maria of Castile took her responsibility fully respecting the rules and customs of the Cr...

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• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Instrumentalists
• Writers > Poets
• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Musicians > Singers
• Writers > in > Occitan

Provenza; c. 1140 — c. 1212

Review: Provençal poet. Born around 1140, she seems to have had court in Die. She loved and wrote about love for the great troubadour Raimbaut of Orange. Her compositions stand out for their quality and singularity. Her poetic voice is gallant, daring and ...

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• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Writers > Poets

14th century

Review: Poetess who followed the troubadour tradition of the 14th century. Only one of her poems has survived, "E-z yeu am tal qu'es bo e belh”, in the Cançoner Vega-Aguiló. The main voice expresses the sadness caused by the distance that sets her apart fr...

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

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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• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Educators > Pedagogues

Molins de Rei, c. 1504 — Barcelona, 1549

Review: Estefania de Requesens was the daughter of LLuís de Requesens i Joan Soler and Hipòlita Roís de Liori, as well as the heiress of a great heritage. She was so renowned that, when she married Juan de Zúñiga, it was agreed that the heir had to be surn...

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• Clerical or spiritual women > Abbesses
• Writers
• Writers > Story writers

Valencia; 1430 — 1490

Review: Writer, abbess and intellectual character of the Golden Age of València. Her work, _Vita Christi_ , constitutes a revision of the sacred history from the feminine genealogy of Christ, and had a great subsequent influence. It is one of the reference...

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• Writers
• Writers > Poets

Kaunas (Lithuania), 06-07-1928 — Vilnius (Lithuania), 06-02-1990

Review: She was born in Kaunas (Lithuania). She had health problems since her youth. The mother was overwhelmed by alcoholism. Studied at Kaunas VII Gymnasium. In Šančiai, when she was only ten years old, she started writing poems. 1948 graduated from the...

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• Writers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Rokiškis (Lithuania), 24-04-1856 — Griezioneles, Anyksciai (Lithuania), 25-10-1925

Review: In her literature works, Liudvika Didžiulienė-Žmona (Wife) promoted the ideas of national revival, elevated nationality and condemned talked a lot about education for all people of Lithuania. The works mock the life of the manors of that time, the ...

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)
• Humanistics > Sociologists
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers > Essayists

Madrid, 30-11-1942

Review: Born in 1942, she grew up in the post-war period and the early years of Spanish modernisation. She studied political science and economics at the same time as she began an exhaustive investigation into the invisibility of women's work. Since the 19...

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• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Aircraft pilots
• Healthcare workers > Nurses
• Professionals / Other groups > Social workers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Autobiographers

Atchison, 24-07-1897 — Pacific Ocean, 02-07-1937

Review: American aviator. Her feats include the solo crossing of the Atlantic (1932), never before accomplished by a woman, and the first successful flight between the island of Hawaii and the US mainland (1935). She also achieved several records in the 19...

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• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Travellers
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > in > Latin

b. Galicia, c. 350

Review: Egeria was a high lady from the Hispanic province of _Gallaecia_ who made a trip to the Holy Land between 381-384. She gathered her impressions in the book _Itinerarium ad loca sancta_ , written in the form of letters. It narrates the details of th...

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• Rulers > Politicians
• Clerical or spiritual women > Theologists
• Clerical or spiritual women > Priestesses
• Scientists > Astronomers
• Musicians > Composers
• Writers > Poets

Akkadian Empire, Mesopotamia, c. 2285 BCE — Ur, Mesopotamia, c. 2250 BCE

Review: Enheduanna was a priestess, writer, politician and musician. He is considered the first writer who signed his work (Exaltation of Inanna), male or female, of mankind. She was also the first person to develop a musical notation and to determine the ...

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• Activists > Ecologists (activists)

Stockholm, 03-01-2003

Review: Greta Thunberg began her activism at the age of 15 with a school climate strike that has had a huge international impact. Her impact on the world stage, which some media have described as the _Greta Thunberg effect_  has led to large-scale student ...

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Writers > in > English
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers > Photojournalists

Waltham, 05-06-1949

Review: Donna Ferrato is a photographer focused on documenting violence against women. She has worked as a photojournalist on swingers' clubs, group weddings, and other forms of sexuality and affection which are not normative, as well as on brothels, prost...

Groups by dedication:

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

London; 25-07-1920 — 16-04-1958

Review: She has gone down in history for being the author of the famous Photograph 51, an image of the DNA molecule taken with a completely new technique at the time: X-ray diffraction. As both Watson and Crick recognized years later, the vision of the ima...

Groups by dedication:

• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Philanthropists
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Translators
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses

Barcelona, 07-01-1921 — París, 04-03-2012

Review: Versatile author, Felícia Fuster is a visual artist, writer, and translator; even though she was put in the spotlight in her maturity, she is considered to be a prominent figure of contemporary Catalan poetry. As a painter, she evolved from Express...

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• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Expeditionaries
• Women-at-arms > Militaries / Soldiers
• Humanistics > Anthropologists
• Humanistics > Archaeologists

London (United Kingdom), 05-05-1892 — Cambridge (United Kingdom), 18-12-1968

Review: She was an archaeologist, professor at Cambridge University, in the United Kingdom, and carried out fieldwork in significant and relevant places like Gibraltar, southern England, Iraqi Kurdistan and Bulgaria. She excavated key sites like Kent’s cav...

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Pacifists
• Humanistics > Psychologists
• Writers > in > Spanish
• Writers > Essayists
• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)
• Humanistics > Philosophers > Philosophers (morals and ethics)

New York, 28-11-1936

Review: Prestigious academic, undisputed voice in the modification of the parameters of analysis of socio-moral conduct, introducing the moral contributions of women on an equal footing. Defender of the rights of oppressed groups from a pacifist position, ...

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• Scientists > Biologists > Biophysician
• Healthcare workers > Pharmacists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics

Madrid, 1977

Review: Graduated in Pharmacy and doctor in Biomedicine, with an MBA in Biotechnological Management. Specialised in cancer and AIDS, she has developed a gel for topical vaginal use to prevent the spread of HIV. As the co-founder of the company Ambiox Bio...

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• Activists
• Technologists > Inventors
• Scientists > Biologists > Zoologists
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Essayists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Scriptwriters

Boston, Massachussets, 29-08-1947

Review: Temple Grandin is a zoologist, ethologist, and professor at Colorado State University, and an abattoir designer. She was born in Boston in 1947. She got a PhD in Animal Science at the University of Illinois, and currently, she is professor of anim...

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• Writers

Kaunas (Lithuania); 28-05-1927 — 25-12-1987

Review: She was born in Kaunas and studied at the local girls' gymnasium. After the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, the family was exiled in the first wave of deportations in June 1941. Dalia's father was separated from the rest of the family and died in t...

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• 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...

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• 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:

• 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...

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• 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.

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• 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...

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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...

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• 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...

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• Musicians > Instrumentalists
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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 ...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
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• 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...

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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...

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• 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...

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• 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' ...

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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,...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
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• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers
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• 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...

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

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...

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• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Inventors
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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• Scientists > Chemists
• Writers > Essayists

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 ...

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• Activists
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• 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...

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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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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
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• 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...

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Abolitionists
• Writers > Poets
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• 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...

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• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Cultural agents
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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
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• 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 ...

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• 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)
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• 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...

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• 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...

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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)
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• 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- ...