Activism Archives - Page 138 of 197

Mary Johnston

In addition to being one of the country’s bestselling authors of her day and having three silent film adaptations of her novels, Johnson was a women’s rights advocate.

Mary Shaw

American actress, lecturer and woman suffrage leader.

Anna Maria Van Schurman

Dutch painter, engraver, poet, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist writer known for her exceptional learning and her defense of female education.

When Alice Candy began teaching at Canterbury College, the academic staff was, with one exception (Elizabeth Herriott, biology), entirely male. She gradually acquired the unofficial status of dean of women – and an influence on college life well above her junior academic status.

Alice Mary Cassie

Scottish New Zealand women’s rights activist

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.