Activism > Social Reform Archives - Page 9 of 14

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

Elizabeth Fry

English philanthropist, suffragist and social reformer

Jane Cunningham Croly

American author, and journalist, better known as Jennie June

Edith Abbott

Edith Abbott, an economist, social worker and women’s equality campaigner, was the first American woman to be appointed the dean of a graduate school in the United States.

Beatrice Serota

British politician and social reformer

Eileen Younghusband

Eileen Younghusband’s career in social work education began in the 1930s and continued till her death in 1981.

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.

Beatrice Webb

One of the four founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mary Carpenter

English philanthropist and author active in working for the benefit of orphaned or neglected children.