Winifred Annie Valentine
New Zealand teacher, educationalist
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Flora Nwapa
Considered Africa’s first internationally published female novelist
Alice Oldham
Irish lecturer at Alexandra College and pioneer of women’s higher education
Alicia Adélaide Needham
Irish musician and composer
Flora Tristan
One of the overlooked (yet instrumental) representatives of French utopian socialism
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