Ruth Homan
Educator and advocate for women’s welfare, who served on the London School Board for several years, and actively participated in Liberal politics, promoting progressive social policies.
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Katharine Glasier
English socialist politician, journalist, and novelist, best known for her pivotal role as a founding member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1893.
Laura Smith Haviland
Pivotal figure in the American abolitionist movement.
Katharine Coman
Influential American social activist and educator.
Caroline Still Anderson
Pioneering physician in the Philadelphia African-American community and one of the first Black women to become a physician in the United States.
Cornelia Sorabji
Prominent Indian lawyer, social reformer, and writer.
Yamada Waka
Prominent Japanese feminist who advocated social reform during Japan’s late Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa eras.
Eveline Cunnington
New Zealand women’s rights activist and social reformer
Eglantyne Jebb
British social reformer who founded the Save the Children organisation at the end of World War I
Emma Goldman
Russian-born Jewish anarchist, political activist, and writer who greatly influenced anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe during the first half of the 20th century.