Caroline Townshend
British stained glass artist and suffragist
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Ruth Cavendish Bentinck
Founder of the Cavendish Bentinck Library, Ruth was involved with the National Federation of Women Workers and the Fabian Society. She was also a keen supporter of the women’s suffrage movement.
Maureen Colquhoun
Women’s rights activist and former Labour Member of Parliament for Northampton North
Eugenia Charles
Dominica’s first female prime minister
Ellen Forrester
Irish nationalist and poet
Josephine Ryan
Irish teacher and political activist
Kitty O’Doherty
Irish nationalist
Mary Reynolds
Irish merchant and politician
Soraya Tarzi
Queen Soraya Tarzi of Afghanistan pushed to modernise the country from the 1920s onward, promoting freedoms and rights for women.
Aïssata Kane
Mauritian political Aïssata Touré Kane served as the country’s first female government minister as part of President Moktar Ould Daddah’s cabinet from 1975 to 1978, when the government was overthrown by a military coup.