Mary Barbour
Social reformer, WW1 Rent Strike leader, founding member of the Women’s Peace Crusade in Scotland and a pioneering woman councillor in 1920s Glasgow.
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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.
Edith Waterworth
Australian welfare worker
Amey Daldy
New Zealand feminist and suffragist
Etta Horn
Etta Horn was a prominent welfare rights advocate. As an activist, she worked alongside other anti-poverty organizers to improve the living conditions of low-income DC residents. Though she had many successes, Horn is widely celebrated for her work with the Citywide Welfare Alliance.
Lucinda Hinsdale Stone
Pioneering American feminist, educator, and social reformerof the 1800s
Mathilda Wrede
The whole life of Mathilda Wrede was dedicated to prisoners and other sufferers.
Barbara Bodichon
An artist, social reformer, women’s rights campaigner and co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge, Barbara Bodichon challenged the status quo from day one.
Maud Ballington Booth
Co-founder of the Volunteers of America