Anita Roddick

As well as founder of the Body Shop, she was also an energetic human rights, social justice and environmental campaigner; she became a well-known and admired woman all around the world.

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Gertrude Denman

Director of the Women’s Land Army during the Second World War, and President of the Women’s Institute from 1917 – 1946.

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Pearl Ing

Pearl Ing, or Yin Mingzhu, was the first woman to play the leading role in a film made in Shanghai, the earliest center of Chinese filmmaking.

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Harriet Elphinstone-Dick

On the 9 September 1875, in rough open water Harriet Elphinstone-Dick swam seven miles from Shoreham Harbour to Brighton’s West Pier. She completed the distance in a record making 2 hours and 45 minutes. It was regarded as one of the greatest swimming feats of the time.

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Airini Elizabeth Woodhouse

Airini Woodhouse was undoubtedly South Canterbury’s outstanding countrywoman in this century, combining an active farm life and service on numerous voluntary organisations with her chosen vocation as a local historian

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Eslanda Robeson

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.

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