Lina Morgenstern
German social reformer. At eighteen she had organized a league to aid poor school children, and after her marriage to Dr. Morgenstern she founded the Berlin Kindergarten Association, of which she was president from 1860 – 1866.
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Ellen Key
Swedish social and ethical writer
Olive Schreiner
English-South African writer
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
American philanthropist and author known for her temperance reform, and in behalf of the advancement of women.
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
Author and war-time lecturer
Annie Smith Peck
American mountain climber and suffragist
Maria Edgeworth
Irish novelist, whose stories represent a distinct stop in the development of fiction in English and are progenitors of similar productions including Sir Walter Scott’s novels of Scottish life.
Emma Hart Willard
Leader in the American movement for the higher education of women, founder of the Troy Female Seminary, and active in the great national revival of common schools in the United States.
Edith Mary Hall
Edith Hall was a leading advocate on behalf of people with disabilities both nationally and internationally.
Louisa Lawson
Louisa Lawson was an outstanding leader in the campaign for women’s right in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.