Alva Belmont
American philanthropist and woman suffrage leader
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Caroline Chisholm
English philanthropist active in Australia
Anne Syrett Green
Anne Green volunteered for decades with Adelaide’s City Mission.
Dr Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier
Dr Lozier graduated (1853) at the Syracuse Medical College, and began to practice in New York City, where she had great success as a surgeon.
Agnes Smith Lewis
Proficient in modern Greek, Arabic, and Syriac, she wrote a number of novels and accounts of travel. In 1892, with her twin sister, Mrs. Margaret Dunlop Gibson, she discovered in the library of the convent of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai, the palimpsest containing the Four Gospels in Syriac, representing the oldest text known of any part of the new Testament.
Winifred Kastner
An Australian activist and philanthropist, the causes she supported were wide-ranging, although with a common core around the welfare of women and children in the home.
Angela Burdett-Coutts
English philanthropist
Anna Swanwick
English writer, translator, and philanthropist.
Catherine Booth
English preacher, known as the Mother of the Salvation Army.
Isabella Graham
Scottish philanthropist who helped establish the Society for the Relief of Poor Widows, the Orphan Asylum Society, the Society for promoting Industry among the Poor, and the first Sunday School for Ignorant Adults.