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19th-century women educators

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Khrystyna Alchevska
Ukrainian teacher and pedagogue
Ekaterina Karavelova
Bulgarian social activist, teacher, writer and translator
Nannette Streicher
German piano maker, composer, music educator, and writer
Lilli Suburg
Estonian journalist (1841-1923)
Fatixa Ğäyetevä
Tatar philanthropist and educator, founder of the first women's gymnasium in Kazan
Vela Blagoeva
Bulgarian writer and educator, editor
Pálné Veres
Hungarian feminist (1815-1895)
Ragna Nielsen
Norwegian educator (1845–1924)
Nedelya Petkova
Bulgarian educator
Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė
Lithuanian writer and activist
Rayna Knyaginya
Bulgarian teacher and revolutionary (1856-1917)
Nino Tkeshelashvili
Georgian feminist, suffragist, writer (1874-1956)
Octavia Rogers Albert
African-American author of Life history
Karen Ankersted
Danish politician
Adele Zay
Transylvanian pedagogue, teacher and women's rights activist
Bertha Tammelin
singer (1836-1915)
Elisabeth Blomqvist
Finnish painter (1827-1901)
Ida Falbe-Hansen
Danish educator and women's activist, editor
Ernestina Lecuona Casado
Cuban pianist, music educator and composer
Julia Bastin
Belgian writer (1888-1968)
Marija Bilezka
Ukrainian pedagog
Regina Guha
Indian lawyer and educator
Marie Joséphine Louise, duchesse de Gontaut
French noble
Anastasia Dimitrova
Bulgarian educator
Katarina Milovuk
Serbian educator and women's rights activist (1844–1909)
Julia Adlerberg
Baltic German educator (1760-1839)
Jelizaveta Palmenbach
Russian pedagogue (1761-1832)
Marian Le Cappellain
Costa Rican academic (1851-1923)
Elisabeth Howen
Baltic German pedagogue (1834-1923)
Maria Theresa Asmar
Iraqi writer
Natalia Iretskaya
Russian opera singer (1845–1922)
Rita Lecumberri
Ecuadorian writer (1831-1910)
Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčkova
Czech teacher and suffragist
Vera Hjelt
Finnish politician
Tota Venkova
first native-born Bulgarian woman physician
Ilmi Hallsten
Finnish politician
Anyentyuwe
thumb|Anyentyuwe () Anyentyuwe (–1904), also known by her English name Janie Harrington, was a Mpongwe teacher, feminist and missionary nurse. Daughter to prominent, educated parents (her father was chief missionary leader and trader Sonie "John" Harrington), she was raised on the Gabonese coast of Africa, in the French occupied territory of Libreville, Gabon. Anyentyume traveled some, but spent the majority of her adult life within this area, teaching and doing missionary work. She was an advocate for women in her outspokenness against the double standard in expectations between men and women
Karoline Stahl
German author (1776-1837)
Milagros Benet de Mewton
Puerto Rican teacher and suffragist (1868-1948)
Rosa Smester
Dominican feminist, teacher, writer
Sapphō Leontias
Greek writer