Golden Age Wonder Woman Comics Had a Backup Feature Called the “Wonder Women of History” Detailing Real Life Women and Their Famous Achievements

Golden Age Wonder Woman Comics Had a Backup Feature Called the “Wonder Women of History” Detailing Real Life Women and Their Famous Achievements

Golden Age Wonder Woman Comics had a backup feature called the “Wonder Women of History” detailing real life women and their famous achievements. Wonder Woman #1 – Florence Nightingale – Battlefield Nurse in the Crimean War. Sacajawea Wonder Woman #2 – Clara Barton – Nurse who organized the Red Cross. Wonder Woman #3 – Edith Cavell – Nurse in the First World War that treated soldiers from both sides of the hostilities. Wonder Woman #4 – Lillian D Wald – Nurse and founder of American Community nursing. Wonder Woman #5 – Susan B. Anthony – Civil rights leader with prominent role in the suffrage movement. Wonder Woman #6 – Madame Chiang Kai Shek – Politician and wife of Chiang Kai Shek. Wonder Woman #7 – Joan of Arc – Peasant girl that led the French army to numerous victories in the Hundred Years War. Wonder Woman #10 – Juliette Low – American Youth Leader and founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA. Wonder Woman #11 – Julia Ward Howe – Abolitionist and author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”. Wonder Woman #12 – Helen Keller – Political activist and first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Wonder Woman #13 – Sojourner Truth – Abolitionist and civil rights activist. Sojourner Truth Wonder Woman #14 – Abigail Adams – Second First Lady of the United States and political adviser to her husband, John Adams. Wonder Woman #15 – Evangeline Booth – General of the Salvation Army. Wonder Woman #16 – Madame Marie Curie– Physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity. First person to win two Nobel Prizes. Wonder Woman #17 – Emma Willard – Women’s rights activist who founded the first school for higher education for women. Wonder Woman #18 – Hannah Adams -- First woman author from the USA. Wonder Woman #19 – Elizabeth Blackwell – First openly identified woman to graduate from medical school and first female doctor in the USA. Wonder Woman #20 – Lucretia Mott – Abolitionist and social reformer who was the initiator of women’s political rights. Wonder Woman #21 – Annie Oakley – American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Wonder Woman #22 – Sarah Bernhardt – Stage and early film actress. Susan B. Anthony Wonder Woman #23 – Amelia Earhart – American aviatrix and first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Wonder Woman #24 – Maria Mitchell – First female professional astronomer in the USA with a comet named after her, which she discovered. Wonder Woman #25 – Dolly Madison – Fourth First Lady of the USA. Wonder Woman #26 – Carrie Chapman Catt– Woman’s suffrage leader who campaigned for the nineteenth amendment. Wonder Woman #27 – Sacajawea – Native American woman that accompanied Lewis and Clark, acting as an interpreter and guide. Wonder Woman #28 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning – One of the most popular poets of the Victorian era. Wonder Woman #29 – Dorothea Lynde Dix – American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who helped to create the first generation of American mental asylums. Wonder Woman #30 – Nellie Bly – American pioneering journalist. Wonder Woman #31 – Jenny Lind – Swedish opera singer. Wonder Woman #33 – Annie Jump Cannon – American astronomer whose extensive cataloguing helped lead to the development of contemporary stellar classification. Wonder Woman #34 – Alice Freeman Palmer – American educator.Madame Chiang Kai Shek Wonder Woman #35 – Fanny Burney - English novelist. Wonder Woman #37 – Bethenia Owens – First woman physician in the eastern USA. Wonder Woman #38 – Hannah More – English religious writer and philanthropist. Wonder Woman #39 – Mumtaz Mahal – Mughal Empress of India and inspiration for the building of the Taj Mahal. Wonder Woman # 40 – Margrete – Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Wonder Woman #41 – Vinnie Ream Hoxie – American sculptor whose most famous work was a statue Abraham Lincoln in the US Capitol. Wonder Woman #43 – Myra Colby Bradwell– Publisher, political activist and first woman admitted to the bar as a lawyer in the state of Illinois. Wonder Woman #45 – Helene Kottauer – Writer in the fifteenth century. Wonder Woman #46 – Harriet Quimby – Early aviatrix and first woman to fly across the English Channel. Lady Hestor Stanhope Wonder Woman #47 – Lady Hestor Stanhope – Intrepid traveler in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Wonder Woman #48 – Anne Dacier – French scholar and translator of classics. Wonder Woman #49 – Emilja Plater – Noblewoman and revolutionary who took part in the November Uprising. Wonder Woman #50 – Ellen Swallow Richards – Famous chemist who was first female graduate of M.I.T. and first female lecturer there as well. Wonder Woman #51 – Caroline Herschel – Famous British astronomer and discoverer of several comets. Wonder Woman #52 – Emma Cons – British social reformer and theater manager. Wonder Woman #53 – Martha G. Kimball –US Civil War battlefield nurse. Wonder Woman #55 – Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch – Founder of Greenwich House and advocate for housing conditions. Wonder Woman #56 – Sarah Josepha Hale – First woman editor of an American magazine. Wonder Woman #57 – Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska – Doctor and civil rights advocate .

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