Alice Stopford Green
Irish historian and nationalist
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Alice Glenn
Irish politician and moral crusader
Alice Reeves
Matron of Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin
Frances Blascoer
A settlement worker and the NAACP’s first secretary from February 1910 to March 1911
Helen Brill
American educator and activist.
Ina Higgins
Ina Higgins was one of the first women to enrol at the Burnley Horticultural College in Melbourne in 1899, receiving her Certificate of Competency in 1900. She subsequently had a lengthy career as a distinguished landscape gardener.
Frances Andrews
Frances Andrews worked as an advocate for social justice, education, and conservation in the early twentieth century.
Ailsa Macvey Swan
Ailsa Swan began her scientific career in the chemistry. She was later and active member of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, the Bird Observers Club of Australia and was founding member of the Phillip Island Conservation Society.
Alice Gray
In 1915, Alice Gray’s extraordinary life took a twist when she shunned the conventional world to live along Indiana’s wild shore.
Andrea Mead Lawrence
Andrea Mead first competed in the Olympics, at just age 15, in the 1948 Olympics.