Belle Sherwin
American reform activist and a suffragist who led the national League of Women Voters during 1924-1934.
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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.
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
Esperanza Velázquez Bringas
Esperanza Velázquez Bringas, journalist, teacher and writer, is considered the pioneer of interviews conducted by women in Mexico.
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
In 1883, Harriet Williams Russell Strong—a graduate of Miss Mary Atkin’s Young Ladies Seminary, mother of four, and recent widow—became the sole owner of a California ranch on the brink of financial ruin. Her will to learn saved her ranch and led to several patents. Later, her advocacy to Congress would forever change how water is managed in the western United States.
Mary MacSwiney
Irish republican
Kate O’Callaghan
Irish teacher and politician