Emilia Pardo Bazán
Spanish writer and novelist
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Pu Shunqing
China’s first female scriptwriter for Cupid’s Puppets (1925), a Great Wall Film Company film co-directed by her husband
Barbara Bodichon
An artist, social reformer, women’s rights campaigner and co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge, Barbara Bodichon challenged the status quo from day one.
Adela Pankhurst
Revolutionary socialist, feminist and exiled daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst
Carlota Matienzo y Roman
Puerto Rican teacher and feminist
Aisha Taymur
Egyptian writer and women’s rights activist
Mathilde Blind
English author.
Dr Ella Cora Hind
Canadian journalist, agriculturalist, Women’s rights activist and suffragist.
Mary Johnston
In addition to being one of the country’s bestselling authors of her day and having three silent film adaptations of her novels, Johnson was a women’s rights advocate.
Mary Shaw
American actress, lecturer and woman suffrage leader.