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| x Emily Murphy |
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Emily Murphy (March 14, 1868 - October 17, 1933) was a Canadian women's rights activist, jurist, and author. In 1916, she became the first woman magistrate in Canada, and in the British Empire. She is best known for her contributions to Canadian...
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| x Henrietta Edwards |
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Women's rights |
Henrietta Muir Edwards (December 18, 1849 – November 10, 1931) was a Canadian women’s rights activist and reformer.
She was born Henrietta Louise Muir in Montreal. As a young woman, she espoused various feminist causes, forming the Working Girls'...
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| x Louise McKinney |
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Louise McKinney (September 22, 1868 - July 10, 1931), born Louise Crummey, was the first woman sworn in to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the first woman elected to a legislature in Canada and in the British Empire. The first woman elected...
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| x Irene Parlby |
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Irene Parlby (January 9, 1868 – July 12, 1965) was a Canadian women's farm leader, activist and politician.
Born in London, England, Parlby came to Canada in 1896. In 1913, Parlby helped to found the first women's local of the United Farmers of...
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| x Nellie McClung |
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Women's suffrage |
Nellie McClung, born Nellie Letitia Mooney (October 20, 1873 - September 1, 1951) was a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. She was a part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada in the early 1900s. She...
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| x Emmeline Pankhurst |
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Women's rights |
Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was an British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement, which won women the right to vote. In 1999 Time in naming Pankhurst as one of the 100 Most Important...
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| x Howshua Amariel |
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Howshua Amariel is a translator of the Biblical Hebrew (also known as Ancient Hebrew or the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet) and the author of the interlinear style Paleo-Hebrew text, entitled “THIS REPORT: The Hebrew/Phoenician History called the Bible”....
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| x Heather Brooke |
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Heather Brooke (born 1970) is a journalist, writer, and freedom of information activist, resident in London, United Kingdom. She is best known as one of the leading figures exposing the House of Commons resistance to disclosing expenses of Members...
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| x Nigel gibson |
Nigel Gibson is an activist and scholar. He was born in London and was an active militant in the 1984 -1985 Miners' Strike. While in London he also met South African exiles from the Black Consciousness Movement and, in conversation with the exiles,...
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| x Amal Hijazi |
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Amal Hijazi or Amal Higazi (Arabic:أمل حجازى) (born on February 20, 1977) is a Lebanese singer, model and pop icon. She is currently one of the most active Lebanese singers and has given a number of concerts throughout the world and has made...
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| x Matthew Jones |
Matthew Jones is an African-American folk singer/songwriter known for being director of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee's The Freedom Singers in the 1960s.
Matthew Jones was a schooled, experienced musician, and became active in the...
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| x Ron Link | Refractive surgery |
Ron Link is a former firefighter and actor who founded Surgical Eyes in 1999 to help patients with complications from LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) and other types of refractive eye surgery. Surgical Eyes was featured in media...
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| x T.J. Parsell |
T.J. Parsell is a writer, filmmaker and human rights activist. He is author of the book, Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison (Carrol & Graf, 2006), which has received praise in several reviews. Additionally, he is a contributor to Dirty Words:...
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| x Bob Wood |
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Robert Edward "Bob" Wood (born February 1957) is an American author, teacher, activist, and potential candidate for Congress. As a 28 year-old high school history teacher from Kalamazoo, Michigan, (though teaching in Seattle, Washington at the time)...
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| x Handrij Zejler |
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Handrij Zejler (1 February 1804 – 15 October 1872) was a Sorbian/Wendish writer, pastor and national activist. He co-founded the Lusatian cultural and scientific society Maćica Serbska.
Zejler was born on February 1, 1804 in Słona Boršć (German:...
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| x Elvia Carrillo Puerto |
Elvia Carrillo Puerto (1878 – 1967) was a Mexican socialist politician and feminist activist. Elvia had been married at the age of 13 and widowed by 21. She founded Mexico's first feminist leagues in 1912, including the League of Rita Cetina...
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| x Rola Dashti |
Rola Dashti (born 1964) is a leading activist in Kuwait and throughout the region advocating democratic reform, fighting for gender equality and increasing roles for women in public life. Most recently, Dr. Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree...
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| x Deeyah |
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Deepika "Deeyah" Thathaal (born August 7, 1977 in Oslo, Norway), is a Pakistani-Norwegian singer, composer and human rights activist of Punjabi descent. Born to Sunni Muslim Pakistani parents. She is often dubbed the “Muslim Madonna”, a term coined...
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| x Flora Dunlap | Women's rights |
Flora Dunlap became president of the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, in 1913. She also headed the Roadside Settlement House, in Des Moines, Iowa. She was a friend of Jane Addams.
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| x Lucienne Herman-Michielsens |
Lucienne Adeline Jeanne Ida Michielsens (Ghent, 13 March 1926 -22 January 1995) was a Belgian liberal politician for the Party for Freedom and Progress (PVV). She was married to the physician Jacques Herman.
Michielsens first became a teacher like...
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| x Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain |
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Roquia Sakhawat Hussain, Bangla: (বেগম রোকেয়া), (1880 – December 9, 1932) was a prolific writer and a social worker in undivided Bengal in the early 20th century. She is most famous for her efforts on behalf of gender equality and other social...
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| x Beba Idelson |
Beba Idelson (Hebrew: בבה אידלסון, 14 November 1895 (née Trakhtenbereg) – 5 January 1975) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
Trakhtenbereg was born in Ekaterinoslav in the Russian Empire (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) in 1895. When she...
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| x Houzan Mahmoud |
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Houzan Mahmoud (1973- ), is a renowned Kurdish women rights and anti-war activist born in Iraqi Kurdistan. She was the main speaker at the anti-war rally in March 2003 in London and the Co-founder of Iraqi Women’s Rights Coalition. She has led an...
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| x Shamsunnahar Mahmud |
Shamsunnahar Mahmud (Bengali: শামসুন্নাহার মাহমুদ) (1908 – 1964) was a writer, politician and educator in Bengal during the early 20th century. She was a leader of Islamic feminism in Bengal after the death of Roquia Sakhawat Hussain.
Her father,...
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| x Phoebe Palmer |
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Phoebe Palmer (December 17, 1807 – November 2, 1874) was an evangelist and writer who promoted the doctrine of Christian perfection. She is considered one of the founders of the Holiness movement in the United States of America and the Higher Life...
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| x Irene Xavier |
Irene Xavier is a Malaysian women's rights activist. She is a prominent member of the Women's Aid Organisation (WAO) - a women's rights NGO. She is also a key activist of Suaram, Malaysia's leading human rights organisation.
Irene was one of the 106...
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| x Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi |
Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi (1863-1936) (Arabic: جميل صدقي الزهاوي, Jamīl Sidqī al-Zahāwī) was a prominent Iraqi poet and philosopher. He is regarded as one of the greatest contemporary poets of the Arab world and was known for his defense of women's...
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| x Guru Nanak Dev |
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Women's rights |
Guru Nanak Dev Ji (Punjabi: ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ ਦੇਵ, Hindi: गुरु नानक देव, Urdu: گرونانک Guru Nānak) (15 April 1469 -22 September 1539) is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. Sikhs believe that all subsequent Gurus possessed Guru Nanak's divinity and religious...
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| x Sor Juana |
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Women's rights |
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (November 12, 1651 or in 1648 – April 17, 1695), also known by her full name Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz de Asbaje (or Asuaje) y Ramírez de Santillana, born as Juana Inés Ramírez de Santillana.
Sor Juana was a self-taught...
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| x Mary Wollstonecraft |
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Women's rights |
Mary Wollstonecraft (pronounced /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the...
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| x Margaret Fuller |
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Women's rights |
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, more commonly known as Margaret Fuller, (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850) was a journalist, critic and women's rights activist associated with the American transcendental movement. She was the first full-time female book...
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| x Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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Women's rights |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American social activist abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in...
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| x Susan B. Anthony |
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Women's rights |
Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She traveled the...
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| x Sara Jane Lippincott |
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Women's rights |
Sara Jane Lippincott (1823-1904) was better known by the pseudonym Grace Greenwood. She was an American author, poet and lecturer. One of the first women to gain access into the Congressional press galleries, she used her questions to advocate for...
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| x Mahatma Jyotirao Phule | Women's rights |
Jotiba Govindrao Phule (Marathi: जोतीबा गोविंदराव फुले) (April 11, 1827 — November 28, 1890), also known as Mahatma Jotiba Phule was an activist, thinker, social reformer, writer, philosopher, theologist, scholar, editor and revolutionary from...
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| x Marianne Hainisch | Women's rights |
Marianne Hainisch (born Perger) (March 25, 1839 in Baden bei Wien - May 5, 1936 in Vienna) was the founder and leader of the Austrian women's movement. She was also the mother of Michael Hainisch, the first President of Austria (1920 - 1928).
In...
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| x Kate Sheppard |
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Women's rights |
Katherine Wilson Sheppard (10 March 1847 – 13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, and is the country's most famous suffragette. Because New Zealand was the first country to introduce universal...
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| x Ida B. Wells |
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Women's rights |
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862–March 25, 1931) was an African American journalist, newspaper editor and, with her husband, a newspaper owner. An early leader in the civil rights movement, she documented the extent of lynching in the United...
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| x Qasim Amin | Women's rights |
Qasim Amin (1863–1908) was an Egyptian jurist and one of the founders of the Egyptian national movement and Cairo University. Born to an Upper Egyptian mother and an Kurdish father who had served as an administrator in Kurdistan then Egypt, Amin is...
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| x Raden Ayu Kartini |
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Women's rights |
Raden Ayu (Ajoe in the Dutch spelling) Kartini, (April 21, 1879–September 17, 1904), was a prominent Javanese and an Indonesian national heroine. Kartini is known as a pioneer in the area of women's rights for native Indonesians.
Kartini was born...
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| x Luisa Capetillo |
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Women's rights |
Luisa Capetillo (October 28, 1879 – October 10, 1922) was one of Puerto Rico's most famous labor organizers. She was also a writer and an anarchist who fought for workers and women's rights.
Capetillo was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, where she was...
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| x Hoda Shaarawi | Women's rights |
Huda Shaarawi (Arabic: هدى شعراوي) (born June 23, 1879 died December 12, 1947) was a pioneer Egyptian feminist leader and nationalist.
Born in Minya, she was a daughter of Muhammad Sultan, the first president of the Egyptian Representative Council,...
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| x Dora Russell | Women's rights |
Dora Black, Lady Russell (3 April 1894 – 31 May 1986) was a British author, a feminist and socialist campaigner, and the second wife of the eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Dora Black was born into an English upper-middle class family, the...
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| x Shirin Ebadi |
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Women's rights |
Shirin Ebadi (Persian: شیرین عبادی - Širin Ebâdi; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Centre for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran. On October 10, 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her...
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| x Unity Dow | Women's rights |
Unity Dow (born 1959) is a judge, human rights activist, and writer from Botswana. She came from a rural background that tended toward traditional values of the African kind. Her mother could not read English, and in most cases decision-making was...
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| x Nawal El Saadawi |
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Women's rights |
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوى) (born October 27, 1931) is an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She was born in Kafr Tahla village on the banks of the Nile. She has written many books on the subject of women in Islam,...
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| x Carolyn Egan | Women's rights |
Carolyn Egan is a trade unionist, feminist and political activist.
An American by birth, Egan moved to Canada during the Vietnam War with her partner who was a draft resister, and settled in Toronto.
In the 1970s Egan was a member of the Toronto...
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| x Shamima Shaikh | Women's rights |
Shamima Shaikh (September 14, 1960 - January 8, 1998) was South Africa's most well-known Muslim women's rights activist. She was a notable Islamic feminist.
She was born in Louis Trichardt – in what is today South Africa’s Limpopo Province – just...
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| x Emily Stowe |
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Women's rights |
Dr. Emily Howard Stowe (May 1, 1831 – April 30, 1903) was the first female doctor to practice in Canada, and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. Emily Stowe was born in Norwich Township, Oxford County, Ontario.
Emily’s public struggle to...
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| x Ansar Burney | Women's rights |
Ansar Burney born August 14, 1956 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan is a leading Pakistani human rights and civil rights activist. He is a graduate of Master's and Law from Karachi University and honorary recipient of a PhD. in Philosophy. In 1980, Ansar...
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| x Kathy Dettwyler |
Dr. Katherine A. Dettwyler is an anthropology professor at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware. She is also a lecturer, author and breastfeeding advocate.
Dr. Dettwyler is best known for her work studying the duration of breastfeeding in...
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| x Sheila Kitzinger |
Sheila Helena Elizabeth Kitzinger MBE (born March 29, 1929 in Taunton, Somerset) is a British natural childbirth activist and author on childbirth and pregnancy. She is a social anthropologist specialising in pregnancy, childbirth and the parenting...
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| x Jack Newman |
Dr. Jack Newman, MD (1946-) is a Canadian physician specializing in breastfeeding support and advocacy.
He has written many articles and produced many videos about breastfeeding which are distributed widely by breastfeeding resource centers and...
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| x William Sears |
William Sears (born c. 1940) is an American pediatrician and the author or co-author of more than 30 parenting books, most notably several in the "Sears Parenting Library." He is a frequent guest on television talkshows, where he goes by the name Dr...
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| x Pat Shelly |
Pat Shelly is the founder and director of The Breastfeeding Center for Greater Washington, a non-profit organization in Northwest Washington, DC, and leading breastfeeding activist. She received her BSN from DePaul University and a Masters in...
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| x Marian Tompson |
Marian Leonard Tompson is one of the seven founders of La Leche League International. She was President of La Leche League for 24 years, from 1956 to 1980, and is currently a member of the Founders Advisory Council. Wife of the late Clement Tompson,...
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| x Sylvia Pankhurst |
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Women's suffrage |
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was a notable campaigner for the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom. She was for a time a prominent left communist who then devoted herself to the cause of anti-fascism, and for...
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| x Christabel Pankhurst |
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Women's suffrage |
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, DBE (22 September 1880 – 13 February 1958) was a suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she directed its militant actions from exile in France from...
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| x Elizabeth Garrett Anderson |
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Women's suffrage |
Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917), was an English physician and feminist, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain.
Garrett was born in 1836 at 1 Commercial Road, Whitechapel, London, the...
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| x Louisa Garrett Anderson |
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Women's suffrage |
Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson CBE (28 July 1873 – 11 November 1943) was a medical pioneer, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union, a suffragette, and social reformer. She was the daughter of the founding medical pioneer Elizabeth Garrett...
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