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This list documents all 999 mythical, historical and notable women who are displayed on the handmade white tiles of the ''Heritage Floor'' as part of [[Judy Chicago]]'s ''[[The Dinner Party]]'' art installation (1979). The names appear as they are spelled on the floor. Since 2007 the installation has been on permanent exhibition in the [[Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art]] at the [[Brooklyn Museum]], New York.

(contracted; show full)| Georgia O’Keeffe
| American film director whose career in feature films spanned from the silent era of the late 1920s into the early 1940s. She was one of the very few women who established a name for herself as a director in the film industry during this time. Her body of work remains to this day the largest by a woman director within the studio system.
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| [[Dorothy Richardson]]
| 1873
| Britain
| Virginia Woolf
| British author and journalist. Author of ''
[[Pilgrimage (novel sequence)|Pilgrimage]]'', a sequence of 13 novels, she was one of the earliest modernist novelists to use stream of consciousness as a narrative technique. Richardson also emphasizes in ''Pilgrimage'' the importance and distinct nature of female experiences.
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| [[Dorothy Wordsworth]]
| 1771
| England
| Caroline Herschel
| English author, poet and diarist. She had no ambitions to be an author, and her writings consist only of series of letters, diary entries, poems and short stories.
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* [[Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead|Hurd-Mead, Kate Campbell]]. ''A History of Women in Medicine: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century''. Self Published (1938).
* Windsor, Laura. ''Women in Medicine: An Encyclopedia''. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO (2002). ISBN 1-57607-392-0

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[[Category:Feminism and history]]
[[Category:Lists by name|Heritage Floor]]
[[Category:Lists of women]]