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Zerelda Sanders Wallace

First Lady of Indiana from 1837 to 1840, and a temperance activist, women’s suffrage leader, and inspirational speaker in the 1870s and 1880s.

Jessie Ackermann was an American advocate of temperance and women’s rights, who as an international missionary for the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) spent a number of years in Australia as an organiser and social reformer. She wrote the first book-length study of Australian women.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Harlem Renaissance poet, critic, journalist, and activist

Lucy Burns

American suffragist

Mary Lasker

Medical philanthropist, political strategist, and health activist Mary Lasker acted as the catalyst for the rapid growth of the biomedical research enterprise in the United States after World War II.

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

Maria Rye

Social reformer and a promoter of emigration from England, especially of young women living in Liverpool workhouses, to the colonies of the British Empire, especially Canada.

Mary Taylor

Although her ideas were considered less radical as the nineteenth century drew to a close, in her emphasis on the value of work for women and on the right of women to lead their own lives, Mary Taylor was more uncompromising than most feminists of her time.

Rosetta Baume

New Zealand teacher, feminist and community leader