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Mariama Keïta

Mariama Keïta was Niger’s first female journalist and a prominent feminist activist.

Lucía Sánchez Saornil is known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organization with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. She was passionate about self-education and wrote poetry (under the male pen name Luciano de San Saor) about industrialism, religion, marriage, anarchism, and economic revolution. She also expressed lesbian desire in times when queerness was not only not accepted but risked arrest.

Edith Searle Grossmann

New Zealand teacher, novelist, journalist, feminist

Dolce Ann Cabot

New Zeleand teacher, journalist, feminist

Rebecca West

Rebecca West famously remarked that ‘people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute’.

Flora Tristan

One of the overlooked (yet instrumental) representatives of French utopian socialism

Róisín Walsh

Irish librarian and republican

Frances Wright

First woman to write a serious book about America; first person to set up an experimental colony, Nashoba near Memphis, with the object of enabling enslaved people to work for their freedom; first woman to co-edit a newspaper in America, first female public orator in America.

Auguste Fickert

Pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer.

Patricia Grimshaw

Australian historian