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Irish senator, social campaigner, and architect

Irish medical doctor and suffragist

Ettie Rout gained a public profile as a cyclist, vegetarian, freethinker and physical culturist.

In 1986 she was elected General of the Salvation Army and was the second woman ever elected to this world-wide position.

American critic and essayist

American educator, the first woman to receive such a doctorate at a European university, president of Bryn Mawr College.

American novelist, born at Richmond, Va.

American author and ornithologist

American suffrage leader and lawyer.

American journalist, anti-slavery agitator and war nurse