Helene Lange
Leader of the Teachers’ Association in Germany in the 1890s who founded courses for women to help them get into universities and edited Die Frau, a magazine for women.
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Florence E Allen
The first female state supreme court judge in the US and one of the first two women federal judges.
Emilia Pardo Bazán
Spanish writer and novelist
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.
Adela Pankhurst
Revolutionary socialist, feminist and exiled daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst
Carlota Matienzo y Roman
Puerto Rican teacher and feminist
Dr Ella Cora Hind
Canadian journalist, agriculturalist, Women’s rights activist and suffragist.
Mary Johnston
In addition to being one of the country’s bestselling authors of her day and having three silent film adaptations of her novels, Johnson was a women’s rights advocate.
Mary Shaw
American actress, lecturer and woman suffrage leader.
Alexandra Gripenberg
Finnish author and women’s rights activist