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Letitia Youmans

Canadian temperance campaigner

Victorian English feminist and social reformer who campaigned for women’s suffrage, the right of women to better education, the end of coverture in British law, the abolition of child prostitution, and an end to human trafficking of young women and children into European prostitution.

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.

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.