Constance Markievicz
Irish republican and labour activist
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Margaret Dockrell
Irish suffragist, philanthropist, and councillor
Noeline Baker
New Zeaaland gardener’s Noeline Baker’s aim was to grow all plants indigenous to Stewart Island as listed by the botanist Leonard Cockayne. Over the next 15 years her garden became a place of botanical significance and in 1949 she was awarded the Loder Cup.
Maud Reeves
New Zealand suffragist and social reformer
Wilhelmina Sherriff Bain
New Zealand activist and writer
Beatrice Dixon
Irish pioneer of women’s participation in public life
Emily White
Emily White made a significant contribution to community and horticultural life in New Zealand, and was her adopted country’s first woman gardening author of note.
Otelia Maria Carrington Cunningham
Otelia was an American suffrage leader during a time when the women’s suffrage movement had decided to focus on supporting the war effort.
Charlotte Despard
Irish suffragist, nationalist, socialist, and writer
Susanne Day
Irish writer and suffragist