Elizabeth Austin
Australian philanthropist – Proclaimed on her death in 1910, as ‘a thoroughly good philanthropic woman’, in her time Austin provided a rare example of a woman with sufficient resources to make substantial donations in her own right.
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Ella Cleggett
Australian philanthropist and activist with the Tubercular Soldiers’ Aid Association of South Australia
Phoebe Hearst
American philanthropist
Priscilla Wakefield
English writer. She published numerous works, chiefly educational, including Mental Improvement, Leisure Hours, Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex, with Hints for its Improvement and several volumes of descriptive geography.
Agnes Ryan
Irish teacher, activist and philanthropist
Mary Carpenter
English philanthropist and author active in working for the benefit of orphaned or neglected children.
Margaret Dockrell
Irish suffragist, philanthropist, and councillor
Amelia Randall
Amelia Mary Randall, although quiet and unassuming, was during the early twentieth century one of the wealthiest women in Hawke’s Bay, and an important public benefactor.
Dorothy Michaelis Theomin
New Zealand philanthropist
Emily White
Emily White made a significant contribution to community and horticultural life in New Zealand, and was her adopted country’s first woman gardening author of note.