Maud Ballington Booth
Co-founder of the Volunteers of America
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Olivia Sage
American philanthropist
Amy B Smith
Amy Smith is an inventor, teacher and founder of MIT D-Lab and Senior Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
Dr Ella Cora Hind
Canadian journalist, agriculturalist, Women’s rights activist and suffragist.
Mary Johnston
In addition to being one of the country’s bestselling authors of her day and having three silent film adaptations of her novels, Johnson was a women’s rights advocate.
Mary Shaw
American actress, lecturer and woman suffrage leader.
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.