Mary Carpenter
English philanthropist and author active in working for the benefit of orphaned or neglected children.
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Mary Crawford Fraser
English author
Mary Prince
British abolitionist and memoirist
Claudia Jones
Journalist born in Trinidad who dedicated her life to fighting racism inequality and injustice.
Sybil Kathigasu
Malysian Eurasian nurse and midwife during WWII who assisted resistance to the Japanese occupation of Malaya.
Ellen Downing
Irish poet
Sorcha Ní Ghuairim
Columnist, newspaper editor and promoter of the Irish language
Davina Whitehouse
Davina Whitehouse’s career in performance spanned 70 years, from theatre and film roles in Britain between the 1920s and the 1940s to radio, theatre, television and film roles in New Zealand from the 1950s to the 2000s.
Bathia Stuart
She was one of the first New Zealand women to enter the male-dominated field of film-making.
Eilís Dillon
Irish writer