Mary Shaw
American actress, lecturer and woman suffrage leader.
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Anna Maria Van Schurman
Dutch painter, engraver, poet, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist writer known for her exceptional learning and her defense of female education.
Alice Muriel Flora Candy
When Alice Candy began teaching at Canterbury College, the academic staff was, with one exception (Elizabeth Herriott, biology), entirely male. She gradually acquired the unofficial status of dean of women – and an influence on college life well above her junior academic status.
Alice Mary Cassie
Scottish New Zealand women’s rights activist
Emilie Montgomery Gardner
E M Gardner was the driving force behind the inclusion of watermills in the remit of the Windmill Section of the SPAB, which became the Wind and Watermill Section in 1946.
Jane Cunningham Croly
American author, and journalist, better known as Jennie June
Zoe Golescu
Romanian political activist
Alexandra Gripenberg
Finnish author and women’s rights activist
Ana Betancourt
Cuban women’s rights activist
Elizabeth Fry
English philanthropist, suffragist and social reformer