Ella Flagg Young
Young was the first woman president of the National Education Association, and also identified herself prominently with the woman’s suffrage movement.
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Flora Annie Steel
English novelist who also wrote a popular history of India.
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
American writer and educator
Jean Cochrane
Irish educator and activist for women’s education
Sophia Smith
American philanthropist, founder of Smith College
Kitty Kain
Kitty Kain was appointed superintendent of New Zealand’s Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in 1941.
Annie Mona Burgin
Her teaching and training methods had a significant influence on the shaping of the Girl Guide movement in New Zealand.
Dr Martha Carey Thomas
American educator, the first woman to receive such a doctorate at a European university, president of Bryn Mawr College.
Lydia Sigourney
Prolific writer on many subjects, producing about fifty volumes of prose, poems and selections, many of which attained wide popularity.
Annie Jenness Miller
American dress reformer, author, publisher and lecturer