Edith Waterworth
Australian welfare worker
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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
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.