Edith Searle Grossmann
New Zealand teacher, novelist, journalist, feminist
New Zealand teacher, novelist, journalist, feminist
New Zeleand teacher, journalist, feminist
Rebecca West famously remarked that ‘people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute’.
One of the overlooked (yet instrumental) representatives of French utopian socialism
Irish librarian and republican
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.
Pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer.
Australian historian
Irish feminist and politician
Spanish publicist and social worker