Feziwe Bookholane
South African nurse and activist
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Elizabeth Burchill
Elizabeth Burchill worked as a nurse in many diverse locations, including England, Canada, the USA, New Guinea and Thursday Island. She has written several books about her nursing experience, including Thursday Island Nurse and The Paths I’ve Trod.
Mona Grey
Irish nurse and philanthropist who promoted nursing education
Joan Burke
Irish nurse, politician and farmer
Bridget Hedderman
Irish district nurse
Julia Walworth Long
Ohio temperance activist who helped organize two Presbyterian churches in Cleveland and devoted much time to social service
Lucinda Elizabeth Stewart Boyce
The first Euro-American woman to live permanently on San Juan Island, she also served as a community leader and role model for hundreds of women who braved the primitive conditions of the island’s early settlement years.
Dr Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau
The first female member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Léonie Abo
Congolese writer and activist Léonie Abo is best known for her role in the 1963-65 Kwilu rebellion.
Blanche Huber
Although Blanche Huber was the first woman in Malta to train as a doctor at university, graduating from the University of Malta in 1925, she never practiced medicine professionally, instead working as a pharmacist.