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Mary Augusta Humphry Ward

Immensely popular English novelist.

Dr Anna Howard Shaw

Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), an American suffragist leader, minister and physician.

Eve Mahlab is an influential Australian lawyer and businesswoman who has successfully advocated for women’s advancement in society and the workplace, through her achievements in business leadership, lobbying and philanthropy.

Lizzie Frost Rattray

An influential Auckland citizen with a reputation as a compelling speaker, writer, administrator and social activist

Mary Ann Colclough

Mary Colclough was a highly controversial public figure for a few years only, but she jolted the people of Auckland by fundamentally challenging contemporary assumptions and values about woman’s place in New Zealand society.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Famously referred to as “the woman who was ahead of the women who were ahead of their time,” author, activist, and lecturer Matilda Joslyn Gage worked tirelessly to advocate for abolition, women’s rights, and Native American rights.

Jessie Spinks Rooke

Jessie Rooke was a leader in both the temperance and suffrage campaigns in Tasmania, where the legislature enacted the women’s vote in 1903, the year after the passage of the Commonwealth Franchise Act.

Lillias Skene

Described as ‘well known among the women who count in Melbourne life’, Skene’s particular focus was on improving the welfare of women and children.

Clara Weekes

Physician and zoologist Claire Weekes was the first woman to earn a doctorate of science at the University of Sydney, and a long-time advocate for women’s rights.

Elizabeth Packard

After defending her sanity at trial in 1864, Packard campaigned to ensure the rights of the mentally ill as well as those of married women. She publicized the story of her hospitalization at the hands of her husband in order to prevent the abuse and neglect of others vulnerable before the law.