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Category Archives: Activism > Social Reform

Helen Marot

American labor leader

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Jane Elizabeth Runciman

New Zealand tailoress, union official, social reformer

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Lina Morgenstern

German social reformer. At eighteen she had organized a league to aid poor school children, and after her marriage to Dr. Morgenstern she founded the Berlin Kindergarten Association, of which she was president from 1860 – 1866.

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Octavia Hill

English social reformer and author

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Mary Ashton Livermore

Journalist, Philanthropist, and Lecturer

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Pandita Saraswati Ramabai

Advocate for the education of women and the abandonment of the custom of child marriages

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Frances E Willard

Frances E. Willard (1839-1898) was an American educator, suffragist and temperance reformer.

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Elizabeth Caradus

Her interests in women and temperance led Caradus to the first meetings of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, established in Auckland in 1885. She quickly became a key member of the WCTU and the Auckland branch of the Women’s Franchise League, formed in 1892. Throughout the franchise campaign, and later, in the Auckland branch of the National Council of Women of New Zealand, Elizabeth Caradus was a leading figure. However, she rarely took a prominent office, perhaps because of financial restraints or business or family commitments. Caradus differed from most of the suffragist leaders in that she was of working-class origins and upbringing and had a large family to care for. Although she became treasurer of the WFL in 1893, she turned down the post of president of the Auckland branch of the WCTU. However, she frequently spoke publicly, moved resolutions and took part in deputations.

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Cybele Ethel Kirk

In 1926 Kirk was one of the first four Wellington women to be appointed justice of the peace. She had been president of the Wellington branch of the National Council of Women of New Zealand for several years, and from 1934 to 1937 was president of the national body.

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Florence Marie Harsant

Temperance worker, nurse, community leader, writer

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