Emilie Montgomery Gardner
E M Gardner was the driving force behind the inclusion of watermills in the remit of the Windmill Section of the SPAB, which became the Wind and Watermill Section in 1946.
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Zoe Golescu
Romanian political activist
Alexandra Gripenberg
Finnish author and women’s rights activist
Ana Betancourt
Cuban women’s rights activist
Elizabeth Fry
English philanthropist, suffragist and social reformer
Jane Cunningham Croly
American author, and journalist, better known as Jennie June
Jocelyn Hyslop
Having been appointed as Melbourne’s first Director of Social Work Training in 1934, the course which continues to the present as the University of Melbourne Social Work Department, Jocelyn Hyslop spent a decade in Melbourne. She not only established social work training in Victoria but was also the major influence in the establishment of a national social work curriculum which became the basis for today’s strong profession in Australia.
Mary Danvers Stocks
Mary Danvers Stocks was a life-long activist. As well as an extensive academic career, she campaigned for issues from the ordination of women priests and equal pay to university education and the NHS. A successful career in broadcasting contributed to her peerage in 1966.
Minnie Haskins
Poet, novelist and welfare activist
Sydney Bushell
Sydney Mary Bushell made significant contributions to the field of housing in the 1920s, particularly women’s housing, with the Garden City and Town Planning Association and Women’s Pioneer Housing.