Lizzie Frost Rattray
An influential Auckland citizen with a reputation as a compelling speaker, writer, administrator and social activist
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Matilda Joslyn Gage
Famously referred to as “the woman who was ahead of the women who were ahead of their time,” author, activist, and lecturer Matilda Joslyn Gage worked tirelessly to advocate for abolition, women’s rights, and Native American rights.
Jessie Spinks Rooke
Jessie Rooke was a leader in both the temperance and suffrage campaigns in Tasmania, where the legislature enacted the women’s vote in 1903, the year after the passage of the Commonwealth Franchise Act.
Clara Weekes
Physician and zoologist Claire Weekes was the first woman to earn a doctorate of science at the University of Sydney, and a long-time advocate for women’s rights.
Annie Mackenzie Golding
Three remarkable sisters, Annie, Belle and Kate Golding (later Dwyer) were leading suffragists and labour movement activists in New South Wales.
Kate Golding Dwyer
Three remarkable sisters, Annie, Belle and Kate Golding (later Dwyer) were leading suffragists and labour movement activists in New South Wales.
Belle Golding
Three remarkable sisters, Annie, Belle and Kate Golding (later Dwyer) were leading suffragists and labour movement activists in New South Wales.
Vida Jane Goldstein
In the first two decades of the twentieth century, Goldstein became the face of Australian feminism.
Margaret Ogg
Margaret Ogg was a journalist and a leader in the suffrage campaign in Queensland, where she also aligned herself with temperance reform.
Victoria Claflin Woodhull
The first woman to run for president and the first female stock broker on Wall Street, Victoria Woodhull achieved remarkable success in finance, journalism, and politics. A spiritualist, suffragist, and free love advocate, Woodhull was an iconoclast who fought for her beliefs no matter how controversial they were at the time.