Alva Belmont
American philanthropist and woman suffrage leader
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Dr Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier
Dr Lozier graduated (1853) at the Syracuse Medical College, and began to practice in New York City, where she had great success as a surgeon.
Alice Meynell
English poet, suffragist essayist and critic
Mary Putnam Jacobi
American physician Mary Putnam Jacobi was the first woman to graduate from the New York College of Pharmacy, and the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris.
Catherine Booth
English preacher, known as the Mother of the Salvation Army.
Sara Jane Lippincott
Journalist and serial writer known as Grace Greenwood
Mary Louise Booth
American journalist and translator of important French works.
Lina Morgenstern
German social reformer. At eighteen she had organized a league to aid poor school children, and after her marriage to Dr. Morgenstern she founded the Berlin Kindergarten Association, of which she was president from 1860 – 1866.
Ellen Key
Swedish social and ethical writer
Olive Schreiner
English-South African writer