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.
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Eve Marion Rimmer
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.
Edith Mary Hall
Edith Hall was a leading advocate on behalf of people with disabilities both nationally and internationally.
Ella Mary Latham
Philanthropist and medical reformer
Elizabeth Hastings
Australian’s first Disability Discrimination Commissioner
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