Mary Hare

Not only was she one of Britain’s first ‘police women’, she was also a pioneering teacher of deaf children, and a passionate suffragette determined to change women’s lives for the better.Hare’s vision for auditory/oral education. In her will Mary Hare wrote ‘my efforts on behalf of the Deaf have been my greatest joy in life.’

Continue reading

Helene Lange

Leader of the Teachers’ Association in Germany in the 1890s who founded courses for women to help them get into universities and edited Die Frau, a magazine for women.

Continue reading

Pálné Veres

Co-founder of a Hungarian Society for the Education of Women in 1867. Their petition addressed to the Parliament bore nine hundred signatures. The society’s school opened in 1869 and progressed rapidly.

Continue reading