Rosy Gibb
Irish social worker, clown, and magician
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Madge Hobbs
Irish barrister and civil rights activist
Red Zora
With its attacks, the RZ tried to encourage women and girls to form gangs to fight back against the many forms of violence and abuse that they experienced in their everyday lives.
Wangari Maathai
Kenyan environmental activist
Annie S Swan
Scottish novelist whose sentimental fiction spoke to the nostalgia of a Scottish diaspora, evoking a way of life and set of values increasingly outmoded in the modern world.
Doris Lessing
Writer, ‘political agitator’ and Communist
Clara Lambert
Militant British suffragette
Concepción Arenal
Spanish publicist and social worker
Anna Hierta-Retzius
Swedish women’s rights activist and philanthropist
Florine Stettheimer
A pioneer artist from early twentieth-century New York, Florine Stettheimer advanced new possibilities in painting for women artists.