Dr Elizabeth Lewis Otey
Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis Otey was an economist, an activist in the Virginia and national suffrage movements, and a political candidate for the Republican and Socialist parties.
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Alice Parker Lesser
Turn of the century American lawyer
May O’Callaghan
20th century Irish journalist, translator and communist
Sarah Cecilia Harrison
Irish painter and social campaigner; in 1912 she became the first woman to be elected to Dublin corporation.
Dr Mary Teresa Hayden
Irish historian and women’s rights campaigner
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