Annie Besant
English theosophist, author and lecturer
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Catherine Helen Spence
In 1901 she established a women’s collective clothing factory and was appointed the chair of its board. She continued her work for electoral reform and moved the resolution that brought the South Australian National Council of Women into existence, although she found the organisation too cautious and resigned from the executive in 1906.
Ruby Hutchison
Ruby Hutchison (1892-1974) was a firebrand West Australian politician and community activist who was active in the early stages of the Australian Consumers’ Association (now Choice).
Violet Conolly
Irish authority on Soviet Russia and traveller
May Furey
New Zealand suffragist
Joséphine de Beauharnais
First wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, and first Empress of France.
Winnie Carney
Irish trade unionist, feminist, and republican
Daisy Greville
British philanthropist and social leader
Margaret Buckley
Irish republican, trade unionist, and writer
Margaret Gaj
Irish restaurateur, radical, and political activist