Nellie Cashman
Irish-American/Canadian frontier entrepreneur and philanthropist
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Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) was an intellectual of her time, writer, political figure, and perhaps among the first true feminist activists.
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
Marija Jurić Zagorka
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.
Auguste Fickert
Pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer.
Edith Waterworth
Australian welfare worker
Amy Wheaton
Australian social work educator and teacher