Ria Mooney
Irish actress, teacher, and producer
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Ethel Jacobson
New Zealand teacher, newspaper editor and manager, journalist
Rena Bell
New Zealand teacher, farmer, political organiser, educationalist
Bessie Lee Cowie
New Zealand temperance campaigner, social reformer, lecturer, writer
Mary Josephine Donovan-O’Sullivan
1900s Irish historian
Blanche Thompson
Early 1900s New Zealand sportswoman
Fanny McHugh
Although the work for which she was more widely known was done during and after the First World War, McHugh had striven to enhance the health and welfare of women for nearly half a century.
Sarah Greenwood
New Zealander Sarah Greenwood recorded in letters and drawings her experience of pioneer life in the Nelson district, where she lived for 46 years.
Margaret Byers
Irish educationist, suffragist, and philanthropist
Maria Pellegrina Amoretti
In 1777, after being rejected by the University of Turin, Maria Pellegrina Amoretti graduated at 21 in Iure utroque (civil and canon Law) at the University of Pavia, defending her doctoral theses.