Eva Gore-Booth
Irish poet, mystic, trade unionist and suffragist
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Emma Goldman
Russian-born Jewish anarchist, political activist, and writer who greatly influenced anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Nadezhda Durova
Nadezhda Andreyevna Durova, under the guise of a man, achieved distinction as a decorated soldier within the Russian cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars. She was one of the earliest documented female officers in the Russian military.
Elizabeth Fergusson
New Zealand nurse and midwife
Joan Armatrading
Distinguished Kittitian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Lucía Sánchez Saornil
Lucía Sánchez Saornil is known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organization with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. She was passionate about self-education and wrote poetry (under the male pen name Luciano de San Saor) about industrialism, religion, marriage, anarchism, and economic revolution. She also expressed lesbian desire in times when queerness was not only not accepted but risked arrest.
Elizabeth Bowen
Irish writer
Helen Steven
Helen had a burning passion for peace that led her to the gates of nuclear bases and into prison, to the offices of NATO commanders and round tables with army generals, into the white heat of the Vietnam War and the freezing chill of vigils, demonstrations and marches.
Auguste Fickert
Pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer.
Edna Walling
One of Australia’s most highly regarded twentieth-century garden designers and writers.