Winifred Kastner
An Australian activist and philanthropist, the causes she supported were wide-ranging, although with a common core around the welfare of women and children in the home.
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Anna Fellowes Vroland
Passionate about women’s rights and the cause of peace, Vroland was also a humanitarian with strong views on the treatment of Australia’s Aboriginal population; she became one of Victoria’s leading campaigners for Aboriginal rights.
Barbara Shaw
She rose through the ranks of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress to become its Deputy Director. In addition she has held executive positions on the Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, Tangentyere Council and the Joint Aboriginal Management Information Services. She was involved with the development of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association.
Frances Milton Trollope
English critic of American domestic life
Dr Mary Putnam Jacobi
American physician Mary Putnam Jacobi was the first woman to graduate from the New York College of Pharmacy, and the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris.
Anna Swanwick
English writer, translator, and philanthropist.
Catherine Booth
English preacher, known as the Mother of the Salvation Army.
Sara Jane Lippincott
Journalist and serial writer known as Grace Greenwood
Yekaterina Breshkovskaya
The “Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”
Mary Louise Booth
American journalist and translator of important French works.