Elizabeth Bell
Irish medical doctor and suffragist
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Ettie Annie Rout
Ettie Rout gained a public profile as a cyclist, vegetarian, freethinker and physical culturist.
Evelyn Augusta Conyers
Conyers had joined the Australian Army Nursing Service as a sister in 1903 and in 1914 went with the Australian Imperial Forces first to Cairo and later to Greece. In December she was appointed Matron-in-Chief with responsibility for almost all nurses serving overseas.
Margaret Clay Ferguson
American botanist who became the first female President of the Botanical Society of America in 1929
Jane Grey Swisshelm
American journalist, anti-slavery agitator and war nurse
Dr Katharine Jeannette Bush
American zoologist
Elsie de Wolfe
American actress and decorator
Gene Stratton-Porter
American author and ornithologist
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.
Elizabeth Carter
English writer of various books of prose and verse, chiefly remembered for her admirable translation of Epictetus, the first that appear in English.