Edith Abbott
Edith Abbott, an economist, social worker and women’s equality campaigner, was the first American woman to be appointed the dean of a graduate school in the United States.
Edith Abbott, an economist, social worker and women’s equality campaigner, was the first American woman to be appointed the dean of a graduate school in the United States.
Irish suffragist
Irish poet, republican, and mystic
A founder member of the Fabian Women’s group, suffragist and gymnastics teacher, she was president of the Gymnastics Teachers Suffrage Society.
A staunch opponent of injustice, Eslanda found her intellectual community and political point of view in New York, where she was located in history on the eve of the Harlem Renaissance and the end of the Bolshevik revolution.
American journalist
Angola’s “Mother of the Revolution”, Deolinda Rodrigues Francisco de Almeida had many roles throughout her short life: nationalist, militant, writer, poet and translator, teacher and radio host.
Sierra Leone activist, teacher and fiction writer Adelaide Casely-Hayford advocated for the Creole community, cultural nationalism, feminism and education for women and girls.
Anne Barbara Page, who graduated from the London School of Economics in 1912 with a First Class Honours degree in Economics and went on to work as private secretary for Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, a Conservative Party Chairman and LSE Chair of Governors from 1916-1935.
British politician and social reformer