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Names of strong and interesting women in history?

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snowrevolution · 18/02/2012 21:44

Fishing for ideas really, in case DC2 is a girl. Possible contenders include:

Emmeline (Pankhurst)
Florence (Nightingale)
Agatha (Christie)

Any other suggestions in this vein? Not so much into more obviously traditional names like Elizabeth.

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snuffy143 · 18/02/2012 21:50

Rosalind (Franklin) - very important in discovery of DNA but found it really hard being a scientist in the "boys club" of the 1950s. Didn't win a Nobel Prize as died (from cancer as a result of exposure to radiation while doing her experiments) and the Nobel Prize is not awarded post-humously.