A noted educator and nationally known club woman, Bowser developed night classes and led summer teaching institutes throughout the state of Virginia for African American educators. She would later become a founder and president of the Virginia State Teachers Association.
New Zealand temperance worker and suffragist
New Zealand teacher, feminist, prohibitionist, socialist and social reformer
New Zealand editor, feminist, temperance and welfare worker
New Zealand suffragist and temperance campaigner
American lawyer and reformer
First Lady of Indiana from 1837 to 1840, and a temperance activist, women’s suffrage leader, and inspirational speaker in the 1870s and 1880s.
As one of the first women justices of the peace in Christchurch she was later made an associate magistrate to the Children’s Court. Within the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women, Elizabeth Taylor promoted issues such as a motherhood endowment, women police, the right of married women to retain their own nationality, and women in politics.
New Zealand domestic worker and community leader
New Zealand botanist, teacher and temperance campaigner