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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.

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

Lina Morgenstern

German social reformer. At eighteen she had organized a league to aid poor school children, and after her marriage to Dr. Morgenstern she founded the Berlin Kindergarten Association, of which she was president from 1860 – 1866.

Octavia Hill

English social reformer and author