Mabel Wilson
New Zealand domestic worker and community leader
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Elsie Dohrmann
New Zealand botanist, teacher and temperance campaigner
Emily Hill
New Zealand teacher, temperance worker and suffragist
Mary McCarthy
New Zealand teacher, temperance worker and political activist
Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen
African-American writer, temperance activist and music professor
Lily Atkinson
New Zealand temperance campaigner, suffragist and feminist
Caroline Still Anderson
Pioneering physician in the Philadelphia African-American community and one of the first Black women to become a physician in the United States.
Emma Brignell Ostler
New Zealand teacher, prohibitionist, landowner, businesswoman
Frances Wright
First woman to write a serious book about America; first person to set up an experimental colony, Nashoba near Memphis, with the object of enabling enslaved people to work for their freedom; first woman to co-edit a newspaper in America, first female public orator in America.
Helen Marot
American labor leader