Collet was an educational trailblazer from her earliest days having attended the North London Collegiate School for Girls, an influential and important school which treated girls’ education seriously and taught topics usually only reserved for boys.
One of the four founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
English philanthropist and author active in working for the benefit of orphaned or neglected children.
New Zealand suffragist and social reformer
Possibly her most notable achievement was to establish, almost single-handedly, a national organisation which would spearhead significant social and political reforms in New Zealand.
New Zealand suffragist
American philanthropic social worker
In 1901 she established a women’s collective clothing factory and was appointed the chair of its board. She continued her work for electoral reform and moved the resolution that brought the South Australian National Council of Women into existence, although she found the organisation too cautious and resigned from the executive in 1906.
Rose Scott was one of the founders of the Women’s Literary Society and the Womanhood Suffrage League and a foundation member of National Council of Women of New South Wales. She was the first president of the Women’s Political Educational League.
Irish trade unionist, social activist and administrator