Whose name would you set in stone?
Kalidasa
Gerow, E. "Kalidasa." Encyclopedia Britannica, March 18, 2024. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kalidasa.
BALAKRISHNAN, PURASU. “THE CURSE MOTIF IN ABHIJNANASAKUNTALAM: Kalidasa’s Psychological Insight.” Indian Literature 37, no. 2 (160) (1994): 108–21. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23337594.
Confucius
Chin, A. "Confucius." Encyclopedia Britannica, August 26, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Confucius.
LEE, JEONG-KYU. “Educational Thoughts of Aristotle and Confucius.” The Journal of Educational Thought (JET) / Revue de La Pensée Éducative 35, no. 2 (2001): 161–80. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23767153.
Flavius Josephus
Poole, G.W. "Flavius Josephus." Encyclopedia Britannica, June 15, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Flavius-Josephus.
Stern, Pnina. “‘Life of Josephus’: The Autobiography of Flavius Josephus.” Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period 41, no. 1 (2010): 63–93. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24669964.
Sugawara no Michizane
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Sugawara Michizane." Encyclopedia Britannica, March 22, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sugawara-Michizane.
TUCK, ROBERT. “Poets, Paragons, and Literary Politics: Sugawara No Michizane in Imperial Japan.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 74, no. 1 (2014): 43–99. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44478300.
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Maria Gaetana Agnesi." Encyclopedia Britannica, May 12, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Gaetana-Agnesi.
Betty Mayfield. “Women and Mathematics in the Time of Euler.” The College Mathematics Journal 44, no. 2 (2013): 82–88. https://doi.org/10.4169/college.math.j.44.2.082.
Origen
Chadwick, H. "Origen." Encyclopedia Britannica, January 27, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Origen.
McGinnis, Kevin. “SITUATING ORIGEN IN THE GREEK PHILOSOPHICAL FIELD.” In Scripturalizing Educational Elitism: Social Formation, Mythmaking, and Symbolic Labor in Origen, 4:67–124. Claremont Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvbd8j73.5.
Pilpay/Panchatantra
Bhattacherjee, U. "Panchatantra." Encyclopedia Britannica, April 3, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Panchatantra-Indian-literature.
Ghazoul, Ferial. “Poetic Logic in ‘The Panchatantra and The Arabian Nights.’” Arab Studies Quarterly 5, no. 1 (1983): 13–21. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41857652.
Julia Ward Howe
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Julia Ward Howe." Encyclopedia Britannica, May 23, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julia-Ward-Howe.
Howe, Julia Ward, Lucy Stone, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Wendell Phillips. “The Other Side of the Woman Question.” The North American Review 129, no. 276 (1879): 413–46. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25100805.
Mary Somerville
Gregersen, E. "Mary Somerville." Encyclopedia Britannica, December 22, 2024. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Somerville.
“AN EVENING WITH MRS. SOMERVILLE.” The College Courant 12, no. 14 (1873): 161–161. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44978147.
Moses
Beegle, D.M. "Moses." Encyclopedia Britannica, August 5, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moses-Hebrew-prophet.
Hallo, William W. “Exodus.” In The Book of the People, 45–60. Brown Judaic Studies, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzgb9g4.10.
Sappho
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Sappho." Encyclopedia Britannica, May 31, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sappho-Greek-poet.
Kivilo, Maarit. “SAPPHO.” In Early Greek Poets’ Lives: The Shaping of the Tradition, 322:167–200. Brill, 2010. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv4cbgkd.11.
Charlotte Bronte
Tompkins, J.M. "Charlotte Brontë." Encyclopedia Britannica, July 12, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlotte-Bronte.
Pinch, Adela. “Transfers of Experience: Brontës, Gaskell, Meynell, Sinclair.” In The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living, 1st ed., 18–55. Fordham University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.19583506.4.
Rai San’yo
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/853215
Walle, Willy Vande. “Selected Books from the 1920s Japanese Donation.” In Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain: Japanese Cultural Identity and Modernity in the 1920s, edited by Willy Vande Walle, Jan Schmidt, and Eline Mennens, 67–207. Leuven University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2zjz6r0.9.
Jane Austen
Southam, B.C. "Jane Austen." Encyclopedia Britannica, September 17, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jane-Austen.
Morris, Pam. “Sense and Sensibility: Wishing Is Believing.” In Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism, 29–54. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g09tv4.5.
Harriet Martineau
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Harriet Martineau." Encyclopedia Britannica, June 23, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harriet-Martineau.
Hughes, Linda K., Sarah Ruffing Robbins, Andrew Taylor, Heidi Hakimi-Hood, and Adam Nemmers, eds. “SUFFRAGE AND CITIZENSHIP.” In Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776–1920: An Anthology, 635–701. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/jj.7358699.15.
Alexander Pushkin
Blagoy, D.D. "Aleksandr Pushkin." Encyclopedia Britannica, July 26, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aleksandr-Sergeyevich-Pushkin.
Davydov, Sergei, and David M. Bethea. “Pushkin’s Biography.” In The Superstitious Muse: Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically, 205–26. Academic Studies Press, 2009. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1zxsj7q.12.
Maria Edgeworth
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Maria Edgeworth." Encyclopedia Britannica, May 18, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Edgeworth.
Mitzi Myers. “‘Anecdotes from the Nursery’ in Maria Edgeworth’s Practical Education (1798): Learning from Children ‘Abroad and At Home.’” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 60, no. 2 (1999): 220–50. https://doi.org/10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.60.2.0220.
Maria Mitchell
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Maria Mitchell." Encyclopedia Britannica, July 28, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Mitchell.
https://www.mariamitchell.org/
George Eliot
Haight, G.S. "George Eliot." Encyclopedia Britannica, August 7, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Eliot.
Booth, Alison. Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Cornell University Press, 1992. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt207g7bb.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein
Escarpit, R. "Germaine de Staël." Encyclopedia Britannica, July 11, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Germaine-de-Stael.
Champs, Emmanuelle de. “Literature, Morals and Utility: Bentham, Dumont and de Staël.” In Bentham and the Arts, edited by Anthony Julius, Malcolm Quinn, and Philip Schofield, 91–114. UCL Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13xprgq.10.
George Sand
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "George Sand." Encyclopedia Britannica, June 27, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Sand.
Paliyenko, Adrianna M. “Un/Sexing Genius.” In Genius Envy: Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801-1900, 9–39. Penn State University Press, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/j.ctt1wf4ct1.6.
Omar Khayyam
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Omar Khayyam." Encyclopedia Britannica, May 14, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Omar-Khayyam-Persian-poet-and-astronomer.
Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Ilford : Cooper, [1910], 1910. https://jstor.org/stable/community.32534664.