Maura Breslin
Irish trade unionist and feminist
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Louie Bennett
Irish suffragist, trade unionist, and peace activist
Margaret Gaj
Irish restaurateur, radical, and political activist
Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia
On 18 May 1893 the Speaker of the lower house of the Kotahitanga parliament introduced a motion from Meri Mangakāhia, requesting that women be given the right to participate in the selection of members. It was suggested that she come into the house to explain her motion, and later that day she addressed the parliament – the first woman recorded to have done so. She requested not only that Māori women be given the vote, but that they be eligible to sit in the Māori parliament
Ella Flagg Young
Young was the first woman president of the National Education Association, and also identified herself prominently with the woman’s suffrage movement.
Helen Blackburn
Irish suffragist and writer
Helen Chenevix
Irish trade unionist, suffragist, and social campaigner
Lydia Maria Child
American writer whose 1825 novel, “The Rebels, a Tale of the Revolution,” was very popular.
Frances Power Cobbe
Irish feminist, journalist, anti-vivisectionist, and philanthropist
Ellen Melville
Although she worked tirelessly to complete the work of the nineteenth century feminists in attempting to remove so-called women’s disabilities, Ellen Melville represented a new breed of feminism. She was an independent professional woman who vigorously sought full participation in public life. She encouraged other women to follow her and to form strong women’s societies, which would take women’s concerns into the arena of public affairs. Melville was one of the key figures in the revival of the feminist movement in the twentieth century.