Hélène Bertaux
French sculptor, founder and president of the Society of Woman Painters and Sculptors, and for fifteen years was a member of the jury on sculpture in the Society of French Artists.
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Louise Michel
French anarchist agitator, called the Red Virgin of Montmartre
Bertha von Suttner
Austrian novelist, especially known for her efforts to promote peace.
Mary Ashton Livermore
Journalist, Philanthropist, and Lecturer
Helen Hunt Jackson
Writer, poet and advocate for native Americans
Dora d’Istria
Romanian author, translator feminist, painter, scholar and mountaineer
Elizabeth Hamilton
Irish writer
Ouida
English novelist and animal rights advocate
Mary Anne Müller
New Zealand’s pioneer suffragist
Kathleen Gertrude Hurd-Wood
Activist for the hard of hearing in New Zealand.