It might seem surprising to devote a category to 50% of the adult European population but, despite the massive, nay uncountable, number of women in the past they have been deeply under represented in academic literature and now on the internet. As part of Women's History Month - and at the risk of promoting the 'history as individuals' school of thought - I have selected one woman for each of the 31 days and compiled a listing of the internet's best sites. Although all lived in Europe between 1500 and 1945, these are not the 'best' women from European history, nor are they the most famous, the most important or most overlooked. Instead, they are an eclectic mix of rulers, scientists, writers, warriors, artists and others, a sample of the lives you might not find in older history books.
1. Ada Lovelace
2. Anna Maria Von Schurman
3. Anne of Austria
4. Artemisia Gentileschi
5. Catalina de Erauso
6. Catherine de Medici
7. Catherine the Great
8. Christina of Sweden
9. Elizabeth I of England
10. Elizabeth Bathory
11. Elizabeth of Bohemia
12. Flora Sandes
13. Isabella I of Spain
14. Josephine de Beauharnais
15. Judith Leyster
16. Laura Bassi
17. Lucrezia Borgia
18. Madame de Maintenon
19. Madame de Sevigne
20. Madame de Staël
21. Margaret of Parma
22. Maria Montessori
23. Maria Theresa
24. Marie Antoinette
25. Marie Curie
26. Marie de Gournay
27. Properzia Rossi
29. Rosa Luxembourg
30. Teresa of Avila
31. Victoria I of England
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