Franklin is still best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA. Her data, according to Francis Crick, was "the data we actually used" to formulate Crick and Watson's 1953 hypothesis regarding the structure of DNA.

Fanny Mendelssohn was a talented and prolific composer on the level of her brother Felix. In fact many of the pieces attributed to him have been proven to be hers.

They asked the Supreme Court of Canada to declare that women were persons under the meaning of the British North American Act and therefore eligible to be appointed to the Senate. Unfortunately, the judges did not believe that women were personals under the Act.

Women were called upon to define their public roles as women, sisters and mothers so as to improve society, and particularly to alleviate the suffering of women and children.  Women were not allowed to vote, own property or sit on the Senate. Without this power, how could any of the outdated laws be changed?

Their life was hard and even dangerous but leaving was not an easy option either. They were really stuck between a rock and a hard place.

I realised that this was in fact a passionate love story.

Clara Driscoll was such a valued employee by Tiffany that she earned a record $10,000 a year. Another point of note in her story is that Clara’s career could have been much more prolific but when she married she was no longer allowed to work as was the norm for society at the time.

There were so many deaths that occurred, often women in childbirth due to their isolation. The life was hard and even dangerous but leaving was not an easy option either. They were really stuck between a rock and a hard place.

The name Madonna has lost its original meaning to a recent generations. The pop icon Madonna is a vividly sexual rock star whose recent foray into motherhood has made big press, yet her name denotes the purest of pure. Perhaps the reality of the first Madonna, with her child on her lap, lies somewhere between the blue virgin and the rock star.