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Category Archives: Activism > Social Reform

Emma Brignell Ostler

New Zealand teacher, prohibitionist, landowner, businesswoman

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Dr Martha Ripley

Influential American physician, suffragist, and reformer, particularly known for her work in advancing women’s health care and reproductive rights.

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Letitia Youmans

Canadian temperance campaigner

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Josephine Butler

Victorian English feminist and social reformer who campaigned for women’s suffrage, the right of women to better education, the end of coverture in British law, the abolition of child prostitution, and an end to human trafficking of young women and children into European prostitution.

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Mary Barbour

Social reformer, WW1 Rent Strike leader, founding member of the Women’s Peace Crusade in Scotland and a pioneering woman councillor in 1920s Glasgow.

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Frances Wright

First woman to write a serious book about America; first person to set up an experimental colony, Nashoba near Memphis, with the object of enabling enslaved people to work for their freedom; first woman to co-edit a newspaper in America, first female public orator in America.

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Auguste Fickert

Pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer.

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Edith Waterworth

Australian welfare worker

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Amey Daldy

New Zealand feminist and suffragist

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Etta Horn

Etta Horn was a prominent welfare rights advocate. As an activist, she worked alongside other anti-poverty organizers to improve the living conditions of low-income DC residents. Though she had many successes, Horn is widely celebrated for her work with the Citywide Welfare Alliance.

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