Evelyn Healy
Australian artist, community activist and peace activist
Australian artist, community activist and peace activist
Irish businesswoman, philanthropist, and nationalist
Irish politician and cabinet minister
Irish suffragist, nationalist, socialist, and writer
Irish diplomat
Irish journalist, filmmaker and political activist
New Zealand communist activist
The first woman to sit in the English House of Commons
English theosophist, author and lecturer
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.