Adelaide Casely-Hayford
Sierra Leone activist, teacher and fiction writer Adelaide Casely-Hayford advocated for the Creole community, cultural nationalism, feminism and education for women and girls.
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Beatrice Serota
British politician and social reformer
Caroline Townshend
British stained glass artist and suffragist
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.
Alison Neilans
Alison went to prison three times for her suffragette actions.
Annie Kenney
British suffragist
Alice Clark
British suffragist and pacifist
Anne Page
Anne Barbara Page, who graduated from the London School of Economics in 1912 with a First Class Honours degree in Economics and went on to work as private secretary for Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, a Conservative Party Chairman and LSE Chair of Governors from 1916-1935.
Edith Morley
Edith Morley was a scholar in English literature, the first woman appointed to a Chair in a British university level institution
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.