Emily Wayland Dinwiddie
Emily Wayland Dinwiddie was an American social worker and reformer.
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Lila Meade Valentine
Lila Meade Valentine was an American suffragist, education reformer, and public-health advocate.
Angela Russell
Irish physician and social reformer
Dolores Jiménez y Muro
Presidents Díaz and later Huerta often imprisoned Dolores Jiménez y Muro, a socialist and political activist from Aguascalientes, for her work on many leftist journals, including La Mujer Mexicana, where she was a member of the editorial staff.
Susan Fessenden
Susan Fessenden (1840-1932) was a reformer and president of the Massachusetts WCTU, advocating for temperance, women’s suffrage, and assistance to the poor.
Mary Morton Kehew
Mary Morton Kehew led the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union from 1892 until her death in 1919.
Pauline Agassiz Shaw
In 1881, when Pauline Agassiz Shaw founded the North Bennet Street School to train primarily European Jewish and Italian immigrants in skilled trades, Boston’s North End was home to thousands of recent immigrants who crowded into the neighborhood’s tenement houses in search of a better life.
Emily Greene Balch
Balch won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for her indefatigable work for peace, in particular with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
Frances Stern
One of the first nutritionists in the United States.
Annie Adams Fields
Annie Adams Fields hosted an influential literary salon in Boston and supported many women writers and engaged in significant charitable work.
Although the home of Annie Adams Fields (1834-1915) and her husband, publisher James T. Fields, at the end of Charles Street, does not survive, it was the site of their important literary salon. After his death in 1881, Annie Fields continued to support the work of many women writers, including Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) who spent winters with her, poet Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920) and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96). Fields was also active in charitable works. She spent many hours at the Charity House on Chardon Street and co-founded the Cooperative Society of Visitors, a case review agency that made recommendations to the central administration of Boston’s relief organizations for aid disbursement. The Society was absorbed into the Associated Charities of Boston. Fields’ book How to Help the Poor (1884) served as an unofficial guide to the programs and policies of Associated Charities.