Ellin Prince Speyer
American philanthropist
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Olivia Sage
American philanthropist
Elizabeth Fry
English philanthropist, suffragist and social reformer
Charlotte Payne-Townshend
Irish heiress and Fabian
Mary E Garrett
American philanthropist who donated money to start the Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1893 on the condition that the school would accept women students “on the same terms as men”.
Eliza Rowdon Hall
Australian philanthropist
Elizabeth Austin
Australian philanthropist – Proclaimed on her death in 1910, as ‘a thoroughly good philanthropic woman’, in her time Austin provided a rare example of a woman with sufficient resources to make substantial donations in her own right.
Ella Cleggett
Australian philanthropist and activist with the Tubercular Soldiers’ Aid Association of South Australia
Phoebe Hearst
American philanthropist
Priscilla Wakefield
English writer. She published numerous works, chiefly educational, including Mental Improvement, Leisure Hours, Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex, with Hints for its Improvement and several volumes of descriptive geography.