Minna Canth
Authoress, social reformer, pioneer of the feminist movement in Finland.
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Malak Hifni Nasif
Egyptian women’s rights activist
Mathilde Fibiger
Danish writer
Gertrude Denman
Director of the Women’s Land Army during the Second World War, and President of the Women’s Institute from 1917 – 1946.
Emilia Pardo Bazán
Spanish writer and novelist
Barbara Bodichon
An artist, social reformer, women’s rights campaigner and co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge, Barbara Bodichon challenged the status quo from day one.
Pu Shunqing
China’s first female scriptwriter for Cupid’s Puppets (1925), a Great Wall Film Company film co-directed by her husband
Adela Pankhurst
Revolutionary socialist, feminist and exiled daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst
Carlota Matienzo y Roman
Puerto Rican teacher and feminist
Aisha Taymur
Egyptian writer and women’s rights activist