Emily Henrietta Hickey
Irish poet, writer, and teacher
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Margaret Yule
Australian educator
Betty Lawson
Australian teacher and trade unionist
Meriel Wilmot-Wright
Wilmot-Wright was the first full-time research officer appointed by an Australian foundation. She transformed the Myer Foundation and the nature and administration of philanthropy in Australia.
Annette Frémont
20th century Canadian teacher and journalist
Agnes Turnbull
Canadian teacher and medical missionary to India
Nan Giese
Australian champion of education and the arts and one of the Northern Territory’s most important leaders.
Georgie Leighton Norton
Norton headed the Cleveland School of Art for three decades during the critical period of its development
Irene Hickox Scranton
1800s American educator, churchwoman, and benefactor
Isa-Beall Williams Neel
President of the Georgia (U.S.) Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union from 1911 to 1932 and then taught language at Bessie Tift College in Forsyth from 1932 to 1941. She was the first woman to receive the honorary LL.D. degree from Mercer University in Macon (1931) and the first woman to be elected vice president of the Georgia Baptist Convention (1931).