Miriam Daly
Irish historian and political activist
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Josephine Butler
Victorian English feminist and social reformer who campaigned for women’s suffrage, the right of women to better education, the end of coverture in British law, the abolition of child prostitution, and an end to human trafficking of young women and children into European prostitution.
Cora Hilda Blanche Wilding
New Zealand artist, physiotherapist, health camp organiser, youth hostel founder, community leader
Alice Oldham
Irish lecturer at Alexandra College and pioneer of women’s higher education
Winifred Annie Valentine
New Zealand teacher, educationalist
Róisín Walsh
Irish librarian and republican
Frances Wright
First woman to write a serious book about America; first person to set up an experimental colony, Nashoba near Memphis, with the object of enabling enslaved people to work for their freedom; first woman to co-edit a newspaper in America, first female public orator in America.
Winnie Davin
New Zealand teacher, community worker and editor
Amy Wheaton
Australian social work educator and teacher
Fay Marles
Australian businesswoman, equal opportunity practitioner, social worker and university chancellor