Ruth Cavendish Bentinck
Founder of the Cavendish Bentinck Library, Ruth was involved with the National Federation of Women Workers and the Fabian Society. She was also a keen supporter of the women’s suffrage movement.
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Vera Douie
During her 41 years at the Women’s Library, she had developed it from a few bookcases for the use of members into a major research collection.
Rosa May Billinghurst
British suffragist
Flora Murray
British doctor and suffragette during the early 20th century
Herabai Tata
Indian women’s rights activist and suffragist
Mithan Jamshed Lam
Indian lawyer, women’s rights activist and the first Indian woman barrister, lawyer at the Bombay High Court and Sheriff of Mumbai
Clara Collet
Collet was an educational trailblazer from her earliest days having attended the North London Collegiate School for Girls, an influential and important school which treated girls’ education seriously and taught topics usually only reserved for boys.
Beatrice Webb
One of the four founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Josephine Ryan
Irish teacher and political activist
Mary E Garrett
American philanthropist who donated money to start the Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1893 on the condition that the school would accept women students “on the same terms as men”.