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Alice Meynell

English poet, suffragist essayist and critic

Passionate about women’s rights and the cause of peace, Vroland was also a humanitarian with strong views on the treatment of Australia’s Aboriginal population; she became one of Victoria’s leading campaigners for Aboriginal rights.

Mary Putnam Jacobi

American physician Mary Putnam Jacobi was the first woman to graduate from the New York College of Pharmacy, and the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris.

Catherine Booth

English preacher, known as the Mother of the Salvation Army.

Sara Jane Lippincott

Journalist and serial writer known as Grace Greenwood

Mary Louise Booth

American journalist and translator of important French works.

Lina Morgenstern

German social reformer. At eighteen she had organized a league to aid poor school children, and after her marriage to Dr. Morgenstern she founded the Berlin Kindergarten Association, of which she was president from 1860 – 1866.