Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis was an Episcopal lay leader whose efforts helped to revive Virginia’s Episcopal church early in the nineteenth century.
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Martha Berry
American educator and founder of the Berry Schools for academically able but economically poor children of the rural South, who usually could not afford to go to other schools. These schools of the early 1900s grew within three decades into Berry College, a comprehensive liberal arts college.
Mary A Rolfe
1920s Yellowstone National Park ranger
Sara Davy Armbruster
1800s and 1900s American businesswoman and publisher
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