Dr Mary Teresa Hayden
Irish historian and women’s rights campaigner
Category Archives: Activism > Suffrage
Continue reading
Mary MacSwiney
Irish republican
Kate O’Callaghan
Irish teacher and politician
Elizabeth Hedge Webster
Elizabeth Hedge Webster (1822-1897) was a supporter of women’s suffrage and the author of Clover Blossoms, a book of essays and short pieces, published in 1880.
Jennie C Van Ness
A Republican from Essex County, she was one of the first two women elected to the New Jersey Assembly after women were granted the right to vote in 1920.
Dr Gertrude Kelly
Irish surgeon and political activist
Margaret Tobin Brown
The “unsinkable Molly Brown,” philanthropist, suffragist and Titanic survivor
Phoebe Couzins
The first femal U.S. Marshal
Dr Katharine Maguire
Dr Katharine Marian Neril Maguire (1863-1931) was Ireland’s first female Paediatrician and a prize winning biology and medical student, who was primarily interested in social medicine.
Blanche Ames Ames
Multi-talented American inventor who was involved in art, farming, engineering and politics.