Lucinda Hinsdale Stone
Pioneering American feminist, educator, and social reformerof the 1800s
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Mathilda Wrede
The whole life of Mathilda Wrede was dedicated to prisoners and other sufferers.
Barbara Bodichon
An artist, social reformer, women’s rights campaigner and co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge, Barbara Bodichon challenged the status quo from day one.
Maud Ballington Booth
Co-founder of the Volunteers of America
Elizabeth Fry
English philanthropist, suffragist and social reformer
Jane Cunningham Croly
American author, and journalist, better known as Jennie June
Edith Abbott
Edith Abbott, an economist, social worker and women’s equality campaigner, was the first American woman to be appointed the dean of a graduate school in the United States.
Beatrice Serota
British politician and social reformer
Eileen Younghusband
Eileen Younghusband’s career in social work education began in the 1930s and continued till her death in 1981.
Clara Collet
Collet was an educational trailblazer from her earliest days having attended the North London Collegiate School for Girls, an influential and important school which treated girls’ education seriously and taught topics usually only reserved for boys.