Name someone worth a google

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Name someone we can google and learn about.

I pick Catherine Trotter Cockburn: she was an early woman writer who focussed on morality and philosophy too but also wrote some stories. The Adentures of a Young Lady (aka Olinda's Adventures) was published in 1693 as a teenager. Yet her legacy is underserved.

Can be anyone at all!

Eloísa Díaz, the first female medical doctor in South America.

Betsi Cadwalladr, the Welsh Florence Nightingale.

Henry Fraser - mouth painter following being paralysed. Amazing work and a very inspiring person.

Ann Lovett

a girl from Longford (1984) Ireland who sadly died giving birth as she hid her pregnancy as a teenager. It caused national outrage and a change in Irish views towards their religion.

Great idea for a thread.

Nellie Crocker - militant suffragette, serial window breaker and all round badass.
This quote from her is still applicable:

"Modern Young Women seem unaware of the price paid for their political and social emancipation, and modern historians have great ignored the struggle."

I follow @TheAttagirls on Twitter/X and her "Woman of the Day" introduces me to so many amazing women that I would never otherwise have heard of.

I'll add Émilie du Châtelet. An impressive 18th century physicist she also wrote on philosophy and had some strong opinions on illusions. To be fair, she's not wrong and many of us live with some degree of illusions!

Thomas Thistlewood. A slave and plantation owner who documented everything, it's harrowing reading and I urge caution if you decide to read his writings. It's stark evidence of the brutality of the plantations.

Nicole d'Oliva

Muriel Wheldale/Onslow, Victorian botanist and biochemist.

James Barry, surgeon. A woman who disguised herself as a man and was only found out to be female on her death.

Pino Lella - a very brave young Italian smuggler and spy in the war

This is a really good thread idea

Elizabeth Grey. A fossil collector who organised collections still seen in museums today. Her husband, obviously, got the credit for most of her work. She did a lot of work near where I live which is how I heard about her. There’s not a huge amount of info about her but I was delighted to tell my dinosaur loving daughters about her.

Angela Burdett-Coutts - rich philanthropist with interesting life story.

Edmonia Lewis - a black / native American sculptor in the 19th century who had a studio in Rome and lived in London later in her life.

Dick Hoyt

Louise Augustine Gleizes

Sophie Scholl - a German student and political activist during the Nazi regime.

Many schools in Germany are named after her

Josephine Butler - British feminist and social reformer - a remarkable woman!

Oh I know of her! She was discussed in a documentary I watched as a teen. I presume the documentary was about Nazi Germany, I can't remember it well but I could picture Sophie Scholl's face as soon as I read your words. She clearly left an impression.

Bessie Watson

Tenzin Palmer

Charlotte Perriand. She studied under Le Corbusier, the man who, at her first interview to work with him, rejected her with, "We don't embroider cushions here".
She went on to develop Les Arcs ski resort, an incredible design that emphasised functionality and harmony with the natural environment, amongst other iconic designs of mid last century.

Celia Hammond is a former model and animal welfare activist who has dedicated her life to improving the lives of cats and dogs:

•	Modeling career 
In the 1960s, Hammond was a top model who appeared on many Vogue covers. 





•	Animal activism 
Hammond used her platform as a model to campaign against animal abuses, including the fur trade, factory farming, and vivisection. She is also a well-known advocate for neutering cats to control the feral population. 





•	Cat rescue 
Hammond has rescued over 170 cats from the Olympic site. She was called in by the London Development Agency to deal with a litter of kittens in a former industrial unit on the 2012 Olympic site. 





•	Animal trust 
Hammond is the founder of the Celia Hammond Animal Trust, a UK charity that works to improve the welfare of animals.

Ann Ming

Lt Col A D Wintle - extraordinary eccentric, real life 'boy's own' hero, amateur lawyer and stickler for what is 'right'

Harriet Tubman - escaped slave, conductor on the 'underground railway' leading other escaped slaves to freedom, scout, spy, nurse and cook for the Union army during the American Civil War, even leading a raid on a Confederate fortress, and early suffragette

Mary Seacole - nurse during the Crimean War, overshadowed by Florence Nightingale

Phillipa of Hainault- wife of King Edward 111