Edith Morley
Edith Morley was a scholar in English literature, the first woman appointed to a Chair in a British university level institution
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Sally Sainsbury
Sally Sainsbury established herself a leader in the field of disability and social policy in the UK.
Eileen Younghusband
Eileen Younghusband’s career in social work education began in the 1930s and continued till her death in 1981.
Ragnhild Hatton
For 32 years Ragnhild Hatton was a member of the International History Department at London School of Economics as a historian and teacher of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Gertude Tuckwell
The first woman to appear in the list of teachers in the London School of Economics Calendar is Gertrude Tuckwell in the School’s second year.
Eileen Power
British economic historian
Beatrice Webb
One of the four founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Ruth Graisberry
Irish printer who succeeded her husband as college printer in 1822 after successfully petitioning the Trinity College Dublin to retain her, with the backing of the leading figures in the capital’s printing trade.
Veronica Ryan
Irish founder and headmistress of the Children’s House Montessori School
Mary E Garrett
American philanthropist who donated money to start the Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1893 on the condition that the school would accept women students “on the same terms as men”.