Lucy Burns
American suffragist
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was one of the most outspoken and articulate abolitionists of the 19th century.
Elizabeth Taylor
As one of the first women justices of the peace in Christchurch she was later made an associate magistrate to the Children’s Court. Within the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women, Elizabeth Taylor promoted issues such as a motherhood endowment, women police, the right of married women to retain their own nationality, and women in politics.
Rachel Reynolds
New Zealand social worker, community leader
Izabela Moszczeńska-Rzepecka
Polish feminist, journalist, translator, and suffragette who was imprisoned
Emily Hill
New Zealand teacher, temperance worker and suffragist
Catherine Fulton
New Zealand diarist, community leader, philanthropist, social reformer and suffragist
Lily Atkinson
New Zealand temperance campaigner, suffragist and feminist
Isabella May
New Zealand temperance worker, suffragist and dress reformer
Patricia Hoey
Irish journalist, suffragist and nationalist