Eveline Cunnington
New Zealand women’s rights activist and social reformer
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Etain Madden
Etain Madden (1939–82) studied philosophy at King’s College, London, and was active in a number of political and feminist causes.
Mariama Keïta
Mariama Keïta was Niger’s first female journalist and a prominent feminist activist.
Lucía Sánchez Saornil
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.