Deirdre Kelly
Irish environmental and community campaigner
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Mary Barbour
Social reformer, WW1 Rent Strike leader, founding member of the Women’s Peace Crusade in Scotland and a pioneering woman councillor in 1920s Glasgow.
Winifred Annie Valentine
New Zealand teacher, educationalist
Flora Nwapa
Considered Africa’s first internationally published female novelist
Alice Oldham
Irish lecturer at Alexandra College and pioneer of women’s higher education
Flora Tristan
One of the overlooked (yet instrumental) representatives of French utopian socialism
Marija Jurić Zagorka
The first professional political journalist in Croatia and South East Europe, a women’s rights’ advocate, one of the most widely-read Croatian writers ever, a co-founder of the Croatian Journalists Association, a novelist, a playwright, a screenwriter, one of the early pioneers of science fiction, the founder of the first women’s trade union organization in Croatia.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Indian independence activist
Dr Ada English
Irish doctor, academic and nationalist
Lumina Sophie
1870: Martinique, French West Indies. An eighteen-year-old pregnant black woman leads a group of her peers in the first worker’s protests since the abolition of slavery in 1848.