Jane Grey Swisshelm
American journalist, anti-slavery agitator and war nurse
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Edith Cavell
English war-nurse, head of a nurses’ training school in Brussels, where she attended German as well as Allied soldiers during the European War. In August 1915, she was accused by the German military authorities of Belgium of assisting prisoners to escape, and in October was condemned to be shot by a firing squad of German soldiers.
Dr Anita Newcomb McGee
American physician and army nurse
Mary Paget
English-American social leader, philanthropist and war nurse
Dr James Barry
Army doctor
Dr Alice Mary Barry
Irish doctor of the early 1900s
Christine Buckley
Irish nurse, midwife and advocate for survivors of childhood abuse in religious and state-supported institutions
Cora Mildred Maris Clark
An enthusiastic player of what was a thoroughly physical contest (against mud and rough playing fields as well as the opposition), Clark held that no limitations should be placed on how women played or organised what she saw as ‘their’ game of hockey.
Annie Aves
New Zealand abortionist of the early 1900s
Dr Ann Preston
American physician and educator who entered the Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia in 1850, when the institution was opened, graduated two years later, and was professor of physiology and hygiene from 1854 and dean from 1866.