Sara Davy Armbruster
1800s and 1900s American businesswoman and publisher
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Matilda Ridout Edgar
Canadian historian and feminist
Helen Reddy
Australian feminist musician
Dr Camille Becker
Australian feminist theologian
Gladys Dorothy O’Shane
Australian political activist for the rights of Indigenous people
Agnes McIntyre
Canadian nurse, shelter superintendent, and police matron
Dr Amelia Yeomans
Canadian physician and social reformer
Mary Augusta Hickey Kennedy
Mary August Hickey Kennedy, grandmother of President John F. Kennedy, was a member of East Boston’s Irish elite, active in politics, including women’s suffrage.
Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman
American educator
Ella Whiton
Founded in 1892, Boston’s Dorchester Woman’s Club united women to promote intellectual growth and community values, led by early members Clara Ripley (1855-1931) and Ella Whiton (1857-1932).