who are some women histroical figures from 1500 to the present?

Question

they need to be from after to 1500 AD, and to teh present. no musicians, poets ok. only women please.

Answer 1

You mean like Queen Elizabeth I, or Queen Elizabeth II, or Mary Queen of Scots, or Queen Katerina of Russia? Or perhaps Madame Curie, who co-discovered radium? Or Margaret Bulkley, who, disguised as Dr. James Barry, was the first woman doctor?

Answer 2

Josephine of France, Marie Antonette, Lady Godiva, Abigail Adams, Martha Washington, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary Todd Lincoln, Betty Zane, Pocohontas

Answer 3

Writers: The Bronte sisters, Jane Austen, George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross), Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley...

Answer 4

Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, Molly Pitcher, Molly Stark, Sacajawea, Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mother Teresa, Emily Dickinson, Sally Ride, Christa McAulliffe...the list goes on and on

Are you actually going to look these women up to find out what they did? I hope so.

Answer 5

Wow. There are tons of absolutely facinating women, many of which have been largely overlooked by history. Here are a few:

Gráinne Ni Mháille (anglicanized as Grace O'Malley), a pirate (http://www.legends.dm.net/pirates/grainne.html)

Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen (http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/eliza.htm)

Dolly Madison, the "power behind the throne' (http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/madison/popculture/commentary/preface.html) (you'll have do do a bit of digging to figure out just how powerful she was)

Helen Keller, America's favorite socialist (http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/17_01/Kell171.shtml)

Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Day)

And just to remind you that the sexual revolution existed long before the 1960's, Tallulah Bankhead (who said "My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine." - http://home.hiwaay.net/~oliver/bankhead.html)

Answer 6

Anne Boleyn was the second wife of Henry VIII and pressed him to get his divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Because of her, and Henry's obsession with a male heir, the Church of England was formed.

Answer 7

Queen Isabel of Spain. She was Christoper Columbus's patroness, and thanks to her help, World History changed.

Maria Montessori, an Italian that changed education with her innovations.

Frida Kahlo, an exquisite Mexican painter

Answer 8

I BELIEVE SAINT JOAN OF ARK ALSO LOOK UP THE ENCYLOPEDIA OF THE MARTYR OF THE SAINTS A VERY POWERFULL BOOK YOU WILL PLENTY OF GOOD WOMEN THERE IN FOR THAT CENTURY