Emilia Pardo Bazán
Spanish writer and novelist
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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.
Adela Pankhurst
Revolutionary socialist, feminist and exiled daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst
Carlota Matienzo y Roman
Puerto Rican teacher and feminist
Dr Ella Cora Hind
Canadian journalist, agriculturalist, Women’s rights activist and suffragist.
Mary Johnston
In addition to being one of the country’s bestselling authors of her day and having three silent film adaptations of her novels, Johnson was a women’s rights advocate.
Mary Shaw
American actress, lecturer and woman suffrage leader.
Alexandra Gripenberg
Finnish author and women’s rights activist
Elizabeth Fry
English philanthropist, suffragist and social reformer
Edith Young
Irish suffragist