Ella Flagg Young
Young was the first woman president of the National Education Association, and also identified herself prominently with the woman’s suffrage movement.
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Helen Blackburn
Irish suffragist and writer
Helen Chenevix
Irish trade unionist, suffragist, and social campaigner
Lydia Maria Child
American writer whose 1825 novel, “The Rebels, a Tale of the Revolution,” was very popular.
Frances Power Cobbe
Irish feminist, journalist, anti-vivisectionist, and philanthropist
Cissie Cahalan
Irish trade unionist and suffragist
Elizabeth Bell
Irish medical doctor and suffragist
Dr Martha Carey Thomas
American educator, the first woman to receive such a doctorate at a European university, president of Bryn Mawr College.
Gertrude Atherton
American novelist
Ellen Glasgow
American novelist, born at Richmond, Va.