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Flora McMillan Forde

New Zealand political activist, feminist, welfare worker

Alice Oldham

Irish lecturer at Alexandra College and pioneer of women’s higher education

Flora Tristan

One of the overlooked (yet instrumental) representatives of French utopian socialism

The first professional political journalist in Croatia and South East Europe, a women’s rights’ advocate, one of the most widely-read Croatian writers ever, a co-founder of the Croatian Journalists Association, a novelist, a playwright, a screenwriter, one of the early pioneers of science fiction, the founder of the first women’s trade union organization in Croatia.

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.