Minnie Turner
British activist in politics and social justice, particularly women’s suffrage.
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Mary Joy Langdon
Sister Mary Joy Langdon, who has the renown of being Britain’s first female retained professional fire-fighter before going on to create an innovative charity, introducing inner-city children and young people with disabilities to horse riding and equine therapy.
Margaret Bondfield
In 1929, she became Britain’s first female cabinet member.
Marguerite Patten
During the war in that role, via practical demonstrations, pamphlets and a BBC radio broadcast called Kitchen Front, she advised Britain on how to eat well and stay healthy using the rationed, limited and sometimes unpalatable foodstuffs available.
Marian Frost
Librarian who convinced Andrew Carnegie to pay for a library in Worthing (UK)
Mary Hare
Not only was she one of Britain’s first ‘police women’, she was also a pioneering teacher of deaf children, and a passionate suffragette determined to change women’s lives for the better.Hare’s vision for auditory/oral education. In her will Mary Hare wrote ‘my efforts on behalf of the Deaf have been my greatest joy in life.’
Elizabeth Robins
American-Anglo stage actress
Elizabeth Matilda Taylor
Blind/Deaf activist and Braille magazine editor
Elza Žiglevica
Member of the Latvian Women’s Auxiliary Corps, which provided food for the thousands of troops during WWI, who died bringing soldiers food
Eliza Orzeszkowa
Belarussian/Polish author