Harriet Martineau
English author
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Fanny Bullock Workman
American mountain-climber and explorer of the late 1800s
Emmeline Pankhurst
Lader of the militant wing of the English suffrage movement.
Sara Yorke Stevenson
American archaeologist; first woman to receive a Sc.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Alva Belmont
American philanthropist and woman suffrage leader
Carrie Burnham Kilgore
The first woman admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania
Loretta Ross
Loretta Ross is an academic and activist who has dedicated many years to advocating for women’s rights and reproductive justice. Most notably, she is a cofounder of SisterSong and Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, served as a previous Executive Director of the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, and is one of twelve women credited with coining the phrase and framework “reproductive justice.”
Dr Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier
Dr Lozier graduated (1853) at the Syracuse Medical College, and began to practice in New York City, where she had great success as a surgeon.
Anna Fellowes Vroland
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.