Maria Edgeworth
Irish novelist, whose stories represent a distinct stop in the development of fiction in English and are progenitors of similar productions including Sir Walter Scott’s novels of Scottish life.
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Emma Hart Willard
Leader in the American movement for the higher education of women, founder of the Troy Female Seminary, and active in the great national revival of common schools in the United States.
Edith Mary Hall
Edith Hall was a leading advocate on behalf of people with disabilities both nationally and internationally.
Louisa Lawson
Louisa Lawson was an outstanding leader in the campaign for women’s right in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Hélène Bertaux
French sculptor, founder and president of the Society of Woman Painters and Sculptors, and for fifteen years was a member of the jury on sculpture in the Society of French Artists.
Louise Michel
French anarchist agitator, called the Red Virgin of Montmartre
Mary Ashton Livermore
Journalist, Philanthropist, and Lecturer
Elizabeth Hamilton
Irish writer
Mary Anne Müller
New Zealand’s pioneer suffragist
Pandita Saraswati Ramabai
Advocate for the education of women and the abandonment of the custom of child marriages