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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

Dr Ella Cora Hind

Canadian journalist, agriculturalist, Women’s rights activist and suffragist.

Mary Johnston

In addition to being one of the country’s bestselling authors of her day and having three silent film adaptations of her novels, Johnson was a women’s rights advocate.

Mary Shaw

American actress, lecturer and woman suffrage leader.

When Alice Candy began teaching at Canterbury College, the academic staff was, with one exception (Elizabeth Herriott, biology), entirely male. She gradually acquired the unofficial status of dean of women – and an influence on college life well above her junior academic status.