Ellen Key
Swedish social and ethical writer
Swedish social and ethical writer
English-South African writer
Author and war-time lecturer
American mountain climber and suffragist
Louisa Lawson was an outstanding leader in the campaign for women’s right in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
French anarchist agitator, called the Red Virgin of Montmartre
Journalist, Philanthropist, and Lecturer
New Zealand’s pioneer suffragist
That a woman of such business ability, and with heavy responsibilities, should be at the same time a society leader, is a marvel of versatility.
Feminist, lawyer, social reformer and human rights activist Concepción Felix Roque founded one of the Philippines’s first women’s organisations, Asociación Feminista Filipina, and one of the first humanitarian organisations, La Gota de Leche, focused on the well-being of mothers and their children.