... that Anna Murray (pictured) helped her future husband, Frederick Douglass, escape slavery by giving him sailor's clothes and a part of her savings?
... that a US-born ex-hippie Malati Dasi, despite fierce opposition, in 1998 became the first international female leader of the Hare Krishna movement?
... that First Nations contemporary artist Dana Claxton is a descendant of Sitting Bull's followers?
... that according to book critic Maureen Corrigan, today’s narratives of women’s suffering are breaking with a tradition going back to Homer, in that they show women talking – and fighting – back?
... that author Lorene Cary was the second African American girl accepted at the "elite" St. Paul's boarding school in New Hampshire, and in 1991 published Black Ice, a memoir of her experiences?
... that Rose Catherine Pinkney developed dozens of American television shows, including The X-Files and Girlfriends?
... that the autobiography of Renaissance medical practitioner Grace Mildmay is one of the earliest written by an English woman?
... that a critic described the work of abstract sculptor Claire Falkenstein as "a Jackson Pollock in three dimensions"?

... that Hikmat Abu Zayd (pictured) was the first female cabinet minister in Egypt?
... that Irish designer Orla Kiely has had her work featured on a range of Citroën DS3 cars, although she's better known for textiles?
... that Dutch television talk show host Sonja Barend retired in 2006 after forty years of making television?
... that Pauline Bebe was France's first female rabbi?
... that alleged German spy Despina Storch was described as "Turkish Delight", "Turkish beauty", and a "modern Cleopatra" in spy literature?
... that Ágnes Farkas was selected Hungarian Handballer of the Year in both 2001 and 2002?
... that even in her thirties, Scottish coloratura soprano Anne Sharp was able to pass as a teenager, performing the role of Emmie Spatchett in Albert Herring at the first Aldeburgh Festival?
... that Dutch writer, journalist, and feminist Wim Hora Adema co-founded the feminist monthly magazine Opzij in 1972, a magazine that's still in print?
... that in 1789 the Women's March on Versailles forced the King of France to accept the Declaration of the Rights of Man?

... that award-winning poet and Cardiff resident Ivy Alvarez (pictured) was born in the Philippines, grew up in Tasmania, has worked in Scotland, Ireland, and Spain, and had her first book published in the US?