Amy Kane
In 1951 she was appointed an OBE for services to women’s organisations. She continued to serve them faithfully for another 20 years and in 1963 was the first New Zealand woman to complete 100,000 flying miles.
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Meg Connery
Irish suffragist
Assia Djebar
Best known by her pen name Assia Djebar, Fatima-Zohra Imalayen was an Algerian feminist novelist, translator and filmmaker, considered one of North Africa’s most influential writers.
Josephine Shaw Lowell
American philanthropist and social worker
Lillie Devereaux Blake
American suffragist and social reformer
Florence Dixie
English explorer and writer
Dr Isabel Barrows
American editor and penologist
Dorothy Day
Founder of the Catholic Worker, activist and social reformer
Thekla Beere
Irish civil servant and first chairman of the Commission on the Status of Women
Winnie Carney
Irish trade unionist, feminist, and republican