Elizabeth Barrett Browning
One of the great poets of England.
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Caroline Elizabeth Norton
English poet and novelist
Dr Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier
Dr Lozier graduated (1853) at the Syracuse Medical College, and began to practice in New York City, where she had great success as a surgeon.
Kia Rīwai
Maori activist Kia Rīwai played a major role in establishing the successful trade-training scheme in New Zealand.
Blanche Edith Baughan
In addition to her work for penal reform, Blanche Baughan was an outspoken opponent of capital punishment, a financial supporter of the Red Cross and a member of the Akaroa Borough Council. Baughan was recognised for her contribution to social services with the award of the King George V Jubilee Medal in 1935. For her literary work she deserves recognition for indicating new directions in the nation’s literary history and as a significant harbinger of change in early New Zealand poetry.
Frances Milton Trollope
English critic of American domestic life
Catherine Booth
English preacher, known as the Mother of the Salvation Army.
Mary Hunt
American temperance reformer and educator
Helen Marot
American labor leader
Jane Elizabeth Runciman
New Zealand tailoress, union official, social reformer