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Category Archives: Activism > Social Reform

Albion Fellows Bacon

American reformer who secured for Indiana a tenement-house law

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Ophelia Settle Egypt

Ophelia Settle Egypt was a medical social worker and women’s rights advocate. She is remembered for many things, including her work to make women’s and reproductive healthcare accessible to the Black communities in Southeast Washington, DC. However, she was also critical in preserving the histories of formerly enslaved African Americans in the early twentieth century, fighting against preventable ailments in Black communities across the country, and for authoring a children’s book.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

One of the great poets of England.

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Caroline Elizabeth Norton

English poet and novelist

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Dr Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier

Dr Lozier graduated (1853) at the Syracuse Medical College, and began to practice in New York City, where she had great success as a surgeon.

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Kia Rīwai

Maori activist Kia Rīwai played a major role in establishing the successful trade-training scheme in New Zealand.

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Blanche Edith Baughan

In addition to her work for penal reform, Blanche Baughan was an outspoken opponent of capital punishment, a financial supporter of the Red Cross and a member of the Akaroa Borough Council. Baughan was recognised for her contribution to social services with the award of the King George V Jubilee Medal in 1935. For her literary work she deserves recognition for indicating new directions in the nation’s literary history and as a significant harbinger of change in early New Zealand poetry.

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Frances Milton Trollope

English critic of American domestic life

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Catherine Booth

English preacher, known as the Mother of the Salvation Army.

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Mary Hunt

American temperance reformer and educator

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