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Christine de Pizan
French poet and author (1364 – c. 1430)

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Mexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet
Margaret of Valois-Angoulême
queen consort of Navarre (1492–1549)
Theodora
Byzantine empress from 527 to 548

Héloïse d’Argenteuil
Héloïse (c. 1101 – 16 May 1164), variously Héloïse d'Argenteuil or Héloïse du Paraclet, was a French nun, philosopher, writer, scholar, and abbess.

Anna Maria van Schurman
artist, scientist and philosopher from the Northern Netherlands (1607-1678)
Emilia Lanier
English poet
María de Zayas
Spanish writer of the Golden Age
India Juliana
16th-century Guaraní rebel from early-colonial Paraguay.