Elizabeth Rawdon
1700s countess of Moira , literary patroness, and antiquarian
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Elizabeth Ryan
Irish Loreto sister and pioneer of women’s higher education
Mary Cosgrave
Irish social worker and local politician
Benita Galeana
Mexican activist imprisoned several times for her work defending the rights of workers and the marginalized.
Blanca Lydia Trejo
Mexican novelist, essayist, journalist and diplomat
Winifred Pink
1920s British car racer and mechanic
Janetta Mary Ornsby
One of the seven founders of the Women’s Engineering Society in the UK
Laura Elizabeth McCully
1900s Canadian feminist, poet, journalist, and independent woman
Anna Yonker
1900s Ukrainian-Canadian community activist
Elizabeth McKenzie Hatton
In her work with Aboriginal girls and for Aboriginal human rights, she showed a leadership beyond that suggested by the evangelical tradition she came from.