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Blanche Armwood

African-American educator, lawyer, and civil rights activist

Jane Wilde

Irish poet, nationalist, and feminist

Minnie Turner

British activist in politics and social justice, particularly women’s suffrage.

Margaret Bondfield

In 1929, she became Britain’s first female cabinet member.

Not only was she one of Britain’s first ‘police women’, she was also a pioneering teacher of deaf children, and a passionate suffragette determined to change women’s lives for the better.Hare’s vision for auditory/oral education. In her will Mary Hare wrote ‘my efforts on behalf of the Deaf have been my greatest joy in life.’

Elizabeth Robins

American-Anglo stage actress

Eliza Orzeszkowa

Belarussian/Polish author

Millicent Garrett Fawcett

British suffragist

Helene Lange

Leader of the Teachers’ Association in Germany in the 1890s who founded courses for women to help them get into universities and edited Die Frau, a magazine for women.

Gina Krog

A leader of the Norwegian feminist movement and editor of Nylænde.