Ruth Cavendish Bentinck
Founder of the Cavendish Bentinck Library, Ruth was involved with the National Federation of Women Workers and the Fabian Society. She was also a keen supporter of the women’s suffrage movement.
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Alison Neilans
Alison went to prison three times for her suffragette actions.
Annie Kenney
British suffragist
Alice Clark
British suffragist and pacifist
Caroline Townshend
British stained glass artist and suffragist
Vera Douie
During her 41 years at the Women’s Library, she had developed it from a few bookcases for the use of members into a major research collection.
Rosa May Billinghurst
British suffragist
Flora Murray
British doctor and suffragette during the early 20th century
Herabai Tata
Indian women’s rights activist and suffragist
Mithan Jamshed Lam
Indian lawyer, women’s rights activist and the first Indian woman barrister, lawyer at the Bombay High Court and Sheriff of Mumbai