Azalais de Porcairagues was a trobairitz (woman troubadour), composing in Occitan in the late 12th century. #CelebratingWomen

Harriet Brooks (July 2, 1876 – April 17, 1933) was the first Canadian female nuclear physicist. She is most famous for her research on nuclear transmutations and radioactivity. #CelebratingWomen

Anna Komnene (1083 – 1153), commonly Latinized as Anna Comnena, was a Byzantine princess, scholar, physician, hospital administrator, and historian. #CelebratingWomen

It feels very special to have the work we do at LCK recognised in this way.
What started in 2020 with families coming together to make sure children
& young people with LC were seen & heard has become something I could never have imagined at the time.
#WomenOfTheYear #WOY2026 #CelebratingWomen

We hope she has a wonderful day as she celebrates this achievement, and continue to raise awareness of Long Covid and the experiences of children, and families.

#WomenOfTheYear #WOY2026 #CelebratingWomen
#LongCovidKids

Valérie Valère (1961 –1981) was a French writer. #CelebratingWomen

Léopoldine Hugo (1824 – 1843) was the eldest daughter of novelist, poet, and dramatist Victor Hugo and his wife, Adèle Foucher. #CelebratingWomen

Mary Lacy (1740 – 1801) was a British sailor, shipwright and memoirist. She was the first woman to have been given an exam and a pension from the British admiralty as a shipwright. #CelebratingWomen

Christine de Pisan, #poet #CelebratingWomen
C14, first professional #woman #writer who supported her family through her craft
#writingcommunity

Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians (c. 870 – 918) ruled Mercia in the English Midlands from 911 until her death. She was the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith. #CelebratingWomen

Margery Kempe (c. 1373–after 1438) was an English Christian mystic and author. She was born Margery Burnham or Brunham around 1373 in Bishop's Lynn (now King's Lynn). Her father, John Brunham, was a merchant in Lynn, mayor of the town and Member of Parliament. #CelebratingWomen

Anne Bonny (1697? –1782?) was an Irish pirate operating in the Caribbean, and one of several noted women in piracy. #CelebratingWomen

Amrita Sher-Gil ( 1913 – 1941) was an eminent Hungarian-Indian painter. She has been called "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century" and was a pioneer in modern Indian art. #CelebratingWomen

Boeo was a Delphic priestess and hymnist, who was a source for Pausanias's notes on the history of the Delphic oracle.
#CelebratingWomen

Aesara of Lucania (Greek, 4th or 3rd century BC) was a Pythagorean philosopher, who wrote a work entitled "On Human Nature", of which a fragment is preserved by Stobaeus. #CelebratingWomen

1700–1721: An unnamed woman serves in the Swedish army in the Great Northern War. After the war, she is seen wearing men's clothing on the streets of Stockholm until the 1740s, where she was known as "The Rider". #CelebratingWomen

Spinning off from a "things that scared me when a kid" list I posted earlier today, and partly inspired also by @joannechocolat.bsky.social's #celebratingwomen posts, a bit of a deep dive:

Mary Lissemond Kent (1893-1983)

A scary presence for Louth, Lincolnshire kids of the 70s, but ...

Tomyris (500 BC) was a Massagetean ruler who reigned over the Massagetae, an Iranian people from Scythian pastoral-nomadic confederation of Central Asia east of the Caspian Sea, in parts of modern-day Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and southern Kazakhstan. #CelebratingWomen

Hallie Quinn Brown (1849 –1949) was an African-American educator, writer and activist. #CelebratingWomen

Fabulla: (around AD 210): was a well-known writer of medical treatises. #CelebratingWomen