Lilian Lenton
Militant British suffragette
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Martha Gruening
Jewish activist and journalist
Dolce Ann Cabot
New Zeleand teacher, journalist, feminist
Josephine Butler
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.
Nellie Cashman
Irish-American/Canadian frontier entrepreneur and philanthropist
Rebecca West
Rebecca West famously remarked that ‘people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute’.
Amey Daldy
New Zealand feminist and suffragist
Dr Kathleen Lynn
Irish medical practitioner and political activist
Charlotte Marsh
One of the first suffragettes to go on hunger strike, she was one of the most effective, professional organisers of the Women’s Social and Political Union working at various moments in Yorkshire (1909), Oxford (1910), Portsmouth and Southampton (1911-12).
Annie S Swan
Scottish novelist whose sentimental fiction spoke to the nostalgia of a Scottish diaspora, evoking a way of life and set of values increasingly outmoded in the modern world.