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Alice Dunbar Nelson

Harlem Renaissance poet, critic, journalist, and activist

In her 1806 book Conversations on Chemistry, Marcet an influential science writer, taught chemistry lessons through fictional conversations between a teacher and her two female students. This popular book went through numerous editions and was published in many different languages.

Aileen McCorkell

Irish Red Cross volunteer

Hilary Boyle

Irish journalist, broadcaster, and activist

Elizabeth Taylor

As one of the first women justices of the peace in Christchurch she was later made an associate magistrate to the Children’s Court. Within the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women, Elizabeth Taylor promoted issues such as a motherhood endowment, women police, the right of married women to retain their own nationality, and women in politics.