More bluestockings for your consideration:- Elizabeth I - she may have had but the feeble body of a woman, but she had the heart and stomach of a king (despite him having asked for it back several times)
- Bess of Hardwick - an independent lady
- Charlotte Brontë - author
- Emily Brontë - author
- Anne Brontë - author
- George Eliot - author
- Aphra Behn - 17th century dramatist and spy
- Rachel Carson - biologist and ecologist
- Valentina Tereshkova - first woman in space
- Hildegarde von Bingen - inventor of the symphony and great mystic, writer and artist
Agnes and Margaret Smith - lady travellers and manuscript-hunters
- Victoria Woodhull - presidential candidate and stockbroker
- Emma Hardinge Britten - spiritualist, theosophist, OTO founding member
- Anne Bonny and Mary Read - pirates
- Marjorie Lee Browne - Doctor of Mathematics
- Evelyn Granville - Computer Programmer, NASA
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