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Estella Crosby

Beautician and community activist who formed the Boston unit of the Housewives League with Geneva Arrington and E. Alice Taylor.

Geneva Arrington

Co-founder of the Boston unit of the Housewives League

Donated her townhouse to the Harriet Tubman Crusaders, an African-American branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Boston, as a residence for African-American women who were excluded from the city’s college dormitories and respectable rooming houses.

Eliza Sheffield

English entrepreneur, socialite and forger

Elsie Eleanor Verity

“The First Lady of the motor trade” in early to mid-20th century Britain

Emily Dunn

Emily Dunn is one of two Yorkshirewomen running their own quarries in the first half of the 20th century, the other being Anne Greaves.

Anne Gillespie Shaw

In 1930 Shaw became a personnel officer for Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company in Manchester, and was later (1933) chief supervisor of women workers.