Lesbia Venner Harford
Australian poet
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Sonja Loveday Davies
New Zealand nurse, labour activist, women’s rights activist, politician and peace campaigner
Jean Devanny
A ‘vivid, valiant and temerarious’ woman, Jean Devanny overcame many of the obstacles to women achieving independence, and through her writings sought the same end for others.
Flo Humphries
New Zealand boarding-house manager, trade unionist and consumer advocate
Kathleen Delap
Irish activist in women’s organisations
Muriel Agnes Heagney
Australian pioneer of women’s rights and equal pay, a feminist and trade unionist and astrographic measurer and computer at Melbourne Observatory from November 1906 until August 1910
Marianne Tasker
New Zealand feminist, community leader and trade unionist
Patricia Redlich
Irish journalist and psychologist
Dr Grace Abbott
American social worker and an influential advocate for children’s and immigrants’ rights in the early 1900s whose work significantly shaped social welfare policies in the United States.
Esther Roper
Irish-English women’s rights activist Esther Roper fought for equal employment and voting rights for working-class women.