Elizabeth Hastings
Australian’s first Disability Discrimination Commissioner
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Louisa Lawson
Louisa Lawson was an outstanding leader in the campaign for women’s right in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Marie-Jeanne Roland
French patriot
Charlotte Corday
French heroine, assassin of Marat
Hélène Bertaux
French sculptor, founder and president of the Society of Woman Painters and Sculptors, and for fifteen years was a member of the jury on sculpture in the Society of French Artists.
Louise Michel
French anarchist agitator, called the Red Virgin of Montmartre
Bertha von Suttner
Austrian novelist, especially known for her efforts to promote peace.
Elisabeth of Wied
Queen of Romania, known as “Carmen Sylva”, a poet and novelist who fostered the higher education of women in Romania
Mary Ashton Livermore
Journalist, Philanthropist, and Lecturer
Helen Hunt Jackson
Writer, poet and advocate for native Americans