Alice Oldham
Irish lecturer at Alexandra College and pioneer of women’s higher education
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Flora Tristan
One of the overlooked (yet instrumental) representatives of French utopian socialism
Marija Jurić Zagorka
The first professional political journalist in Croatia and South East Europe, a women’s rights’ advocate, one of the most widely-read Croatian writers ever, a co-founder of the Croatian Journalists Association, a novelist, a playwright, a screenwriter, one of the early pioneers of science fiction, the founder of the first women’s trade union organization in Croatia.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Indian independence activist
Dr Ada English
Irish doctor, academic and nationalist
Lumina Sophie
1870: Martinique, French West Indies. An eighteen-year-old pregnant black woman leads a group of her peers in the first worker’s protests since the abolition of slavery in 1848.
Amy Hertz
Committed feminist and an advocate for women, children, the poor, and the elderly in the US.
Róisín Walsh
Irish librarian and republican
Frances Wright
First woman to write a serious book about America; first person to set up an experimental colony, Nashoba near Memphis, with the object of enabling enslaved people to work for their freedom; first woman to co-edit a newspaper in America, first female public orator in America.
Annie Chemis
New Zealander who fought for the release of her imprisoned husband