Anna Hierta-Retzius
Swedish women’s rights activist and philanthropist
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Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago was one of the pioneers of Feminist art in the 1970s, a movement that endeavored to reflect women’s lives, call attention to women’s roles as artists, and alter the conditions under which contemporary art was produced and received.
Laura Wheeler Waring
With Edmonia Lewis, Meta Vaux Warrick, and Augusta Savage, Waring is one of the foremost Black American female artists of the first half of the twentieth century.
Doris Keogh
Irish flautist and teacher
Mary P Burrill
Mary P. Burrill was a celebrated playwright whose works inspired many prominent writers of the New Negro Movement/Harlem Renaissance. She used her plays to confront many topics, including, but not limited to, lynching, the Black experience, and bodily autonomy for women.
Joanna Ryan
As Mother Stanislaus in the Loreto order of nuns, she took a leading role in developing a hall of residence for women university students at Loreto College on St Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
Min Ryan
Irish teacher and political activist
Agnes McCullough
Irish teacher, activist and philanthropist
Ida Eise
New Zealand artist and teacher
Eva Philbin
Irish chemist and university professor