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.
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Rosa May Billinghurst
British suffragist
Flora Murray
British doctor and suffragette during the early 20th century
Maureen Colquhoun
Women’s rights activist and former Labour Member of Parliament for Northampton North
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
Sally Sainsbury
Sally Sainsbury established herself a leader in the field of disability and social policy in the UK.
Eileen Younghusband
Eileen Younghusband’s career in social work education began in the 1930s and continued till her death in 1981.
Clara Collet
Collet was an educational trailblazer from her earliest days having attended the North London Collegiate School for Girls, an influential and important school which treated girls’ education seriously and taught topics usually only reserved for boys.
Gertude Tuckwell
The first woman to appear in the list of teachers in the London School of Economics Calendar is Gertrude Tuckwell in the School’s second year.