The Mistress List
(Not the Master List, get it? :D?)
All the women that have been featured thus far. Please bear in mind that I have to update this separately, so it may not always be 100% up-to-date)
- Jane Austen
- The Bayeaux Tapestry Embroiderers
- Hildegard von Bingen
- Anne Bonny
- Gerardine Botte
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Nell Brinkley
- The First Calendar
- Margaret Cavendish
- Èmilie du Châtelet
- Harriette Chick
- Anna Herr Clise
- Marie Curie
- The Dahomey Amazons (Mino)
- Bernadette Devlin
- Comtessa Beatritz de Diá
- Jamie Donaldson
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Gertrude Bell Elion
- Elizabeth I
- Enheduanna
- Fatima al-Fihri
- Rosalind Franklin
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Maud Gonne MacBride
- Ruth Gruber
- Alice Guy-Blaché
- Edith Hamilton
- Thea von Harbou
- Caroline Lucretia Herschel
- Grace Hopper
- Anne Hutchison
- Hypatia of Alexandria
- St. Joan of Arc/Ste. Jeanne d’Arc
- Amanda Jones
- Aisling Judge
- Jenette Kahn
- Noor Inayat Khan
- Stephanie Kwolek
- Henrietta Lacks
- Rani Lakshmibai (Jhansi Ki Rani)
- Hedy Lamarr
- Ada, Countess of Lovelace
- Wangari Maathai
- Elizabeth Holloway Marston
- Sybilla Masters
- Matilda of Tuscany
- Nellie McClung
- Jackie Mitchell
- Eilis O’Connell
- Méret Oppenheim
- Lyudimila Pavlichenko
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
- Radia Perlman
- Princess Pingyang (Li Zhao)
- Lotte Reiniger
- Lorraine Rothman
- J.K. Rowling
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Margaret Sanger
- Clara Schumann
- Laura Secord
- Irena Sendlerowa
- Mary Shelley
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Ching Shih
- Justine Siegal
- Elinor Smith
- Alice Stewart
- Empress Theodora
- The Trung Sisters
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Rigoberta Menchú Tum
- Elizabeth Van Lew
- The White Rose (Sophie Scholl, Traute Lafrenz, Katharina Schueddekopf, Lieselotte “Lilo” Berndl, and Marie-Luise Jahn)
- “Women In Science” at the Smithsonian Channel (Elisabeth Blackburn, JoGayle Howard, Nan Hauser, Elisabeth Kalko, and Gudrun Pflueger)
- “Women With War Wings” (Jacqueline Cochran, Nancy Harkness Love, and the WAFS & WASPs)
- Chien-Shiung Wu
- Clara Zetkin
