Amanda Smith
Methodist preacher and former enslaved woman who funded The Amanda Smith Orphanage and Industrial Home for Abandoned and Destitute Colored Children outside Chicago
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Nellie Cashman
Irish-American/Canadian frontier entrepreneur and philanthropist
Alice Hart
Irish philanthropist, artist and businesswoman
Edith Onians
Australian welfare worker
Amey Daldy
New Zealand feminist and suffragist
Mary Anne Locke
Irish distiller and philanthropist
Adelaide of Susa
Countess of part of the March of Ivrea and the marchioness of Turin in northwestern Italy from 1034 to her death in 1091.
Anna Hierta-Retzius
Swedish women’s rights activist and philanthropist
Agnes McCullough
Irish teacher, activist and philanthropist
Jane Franklin
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.