| QUICKSAND | First novel of Nella Larsen, the first Black woman to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship |
| NELLALARSEN | The first Black woman to win a Guggenheim fellowship, she explored female sexuality and biracial identity in her debut novel |
| BARBARA | Jordan who was the first Southern Black woman to be elected to Congress |
| ARAISININTHESUN | First play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway |
| WHARTON | The first woman to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize - she penned The Age of Innocence and The Eyes (7) |
| CORI | First woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her role in the discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen (surname only) |
| CURIE | Marie ---, Polish-born physicist and chemist, the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize (5) |
| TINAARENA | Singer-songwriter who in 2011 became the first Australian to be awarded a Knighthood of the French National Order of National Merit (4,5) |
| JEANAUGUSTINE | The Honourable ___ ___ (Member of the Order of Canada who in 1993 became the first Black woman elected to the House of Commons) |
| TONI | Who authored the novel Beloved and became, in 1993, the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize? (first name only) |
| NADIA | Comaneci who was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect ten at the Olympics |
| COMANECI | She was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic event |
| NADIACOMANECI | The first ever gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastics event |
| NOBEL | Scientist Marie Curie became the first woman to be awarded this Swedish prize - she was awarded a se |
| HALLOWES | Secret agent tortured by the Gestapo who became the first woman to be awarded the George Cross (8) |
| FLORENCE | British hospital reformer who was the first woman to be awarded the Order of Merit (8,11) |
| NIGHTINGALE | British hospital reformer who was the first woman to be awarded the Order of Merit (8,11) |
| AMOS | Valerie ___ (b.1954), politician and peer, the first black woman to serve in a UK Cabinet (4) |
| DIANEABBOTT | The Shadow Home Secretary since 2016 and the first black woman to become an MP (5,6) |
| ISABELWILKERSON | "Caste" author who was the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism |
