Edith Onians
Australian welfare worker
Australian welfare worker
New Zealand feminist and suffragist
Irish distiller and philanthropist
Countess of part of the March of Ivrea and the marchioness of Turin in northwestern Italy from 1034 to her death in 1091.
Swedish women’s rights activist and philanthropist
Irish teacher, activist and philanthropist
When her husband was sent to Tasmania as Governor in the 1830s and 40s, she travelled widely, improved the wretched conditions that female prisoners endured, encouraged the building of schools for boys and girls, commissioned a temple, and founded a museum.
France’s longest-serving queen
Pioneering American feminist, educator, and social reformerof the 1800s
Daughter of Shah Tahmasp, Pari Khan Khanum took on a political role during her father’s reign, helping him to rule during his last years of illness in 1500s Iran.