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Olive Schreiner

English-South African writer

Annie Smith Peck

American mountain climber and suffragist

Octavia Hill

English social reformer and author

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

American philanthropist and author known for her temperance reform, and in behalf of the advancement of women.

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson

Author and war-time lecturer

Maria Edgeworth

Irish novelist, whose stories represent a distinct stop in the development of fiction in English and are progenitors of similar productions including Sir Walter Scott’s novels of Scottish life.

Emma Hart Willard

Leader in the American movement for the higher education of women, founder of the Troy Female Seminary, and active in the great national revival of common schools in the United States.

Eve Rimmer was one of New Zealand’s greatest paraplegic athletes, winning 32 medals – including 22 gold medals – for athletics and swimming at international sporting events. A household name during the late 1960s and 1970s, she was also an outspoken advocate for the rights of the disabled in sport and society.