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| x Emily Murphy |
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Emily Murphy (born Emily Gowan Ferguson; 14 March 1868 – 17 October 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...
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| x Henrietta Edwards |
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Women's rights |
Henrietta Muir Edwards (18 December 1849 – 10 November 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 née Crummy (22 September 1868 – 10 July 1931) was a provincial politician and women's rights activist from Alberta, Canada. She was the first woman sworn in to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the first woman elected to a...
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| x Irene Parlby |
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Irene Parlby (born Irene Marryat; 9 January 1868 – 12 July 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...
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| x Nellie McClung |
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Women's suffrage |
Nellie McClung, born Nellie Letitia Mooney (20 October 1873 – 1 September 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. In...
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| x Emmeline Pankhurst |
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Women's rights |
Emmeline Pankhurst (born Emmeline Goulden) (15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement which helped women win the right to vote. In 1999 Time named Pankhurst as one of the 100 Most...
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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 Rose Brooke (born 1970) is an American journalist and freedom of information campaigner. Resident since the 1990s in the UK, she is best known for her role in helping to expose the 2009 United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal, which...
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| x Nigel gibson |
Nigel Gibson is an activist, a scholar specializing in philosophy and a noted author. 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...
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| x Amal Hijazi |
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Amal Hijazi (Arabic: أمل حجازى) 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 countless TV appearances. After her lengthy...
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| x Matthew Jones |
Matthew Jones (September 17, 1936 – March 30, 2011) was an African-American folk singer/songwriter known for being a field secretary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and part of their The Freedom Singers in the 1960s.
Matthew Jones...
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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 |
Timothy J. "T. J." Parsell (born July 12, 1960) is an American writer, filmmaker, and human rights activist committed to ending prison rape. He is best known for his book Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man’s Prison, which details the sexual violence...
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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 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: Salzenforst...
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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 |
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Rola A. Al-Dashti (born 1964) is a Kuwaiti activist advocating democratic reform, gender equality and increased roles for women in public life. Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree permitting Kuwaiti women to vote and run for parliamentary...
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| x Deeyah |
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Deeyah (Urdu: دیا, pronounced [d̪iːaː]), born August 7, 1977 in Oslo, Norway, is a Norwegian singer, music producer, composer, film maker and human rights activist of Punjabi/Pashtun descent. She is an outspoken supporter of women's rights,...
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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 Herman-Michielsens (13 March 1926 – 22 January 1995) was a Belgian liberal politician and a member of the Party for Freedom and Progress (PVV). She was married to Jacques Herman, a physician.
Herman-Michielsens was the...
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| x Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain |
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Roquia Sakhawat Hussain, Bengali: (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 (Punjabi: ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ; Hindi: गुरु नानक, Urdu: گرونانک [ˈɡʊɾu ˈnɑnək] Gurū Nānak) (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539 at Talwandi (present-day Pakistan)) was the founder of the religion of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus.
The...
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| x Sor Juana |
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Women's rights |
Juana Inés de la Cruz (12 November 1651 – 17 April 1695), full name Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, was a self-taught scholar and poet of the Baroque school, and nun of New Spain. Although she lived in a colonial era when Mexico was...
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| x Mary Wollstonecraft |
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Women's rights |
Mary Wollstonecraft ( /ˈwʊlstən.krɑːft/; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of...
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| x Margaret Fuller |
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Women's rights |
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, commonly known as Margaret Fuller, (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850) was an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first full-time...
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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 was co-founder...
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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 |
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Women's rights |
Mahatma 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...
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| x Marianne Hainisch | Women's rights |
Marianne Hainisch, born Marianne 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 -...
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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, newspaper owner Ferdinand L. Barnett, an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented lynching in the...
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| x Qasim Amin | Women's rights |
Qasim Amin (pronounced [ˈʔæːsem ʔæˈmiːn], Arabic: قاسم أمين) born on 1 December 1863 Alexandria died April 22, 1908 Cairo was an Egyptian jurist and one of the founders of the Egyptian national movement and Cairo University. Qasim Amin (1863-1908)...
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| x Raden Ayu Kartini |
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Women's rights |
Raden Ayu Kartini, (21 April 1879 – 17 September 1904), or sometimes known as Raden Ajeng Kartini, was a prominent Javanese and an Indonesian national heroine. Kartini was a pioneer in the area of women's rights for Indonesians.
Kartini was born...
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| x Luisa Capetillo |
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Suffrage |
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, to Luis...
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| x Hoda Shaarawi | Women's rights |
Hoda Shaarawi (Arabic: هدى شعراوي) (born June 23, 1879 died December 12, 1947), also sometimes transliterated as Huda Shaarawi or Hoda Sha'rawi, was a pioneer Egyptian feminist leader and nationalist.
Born in Minya, she was a daughter of Muhammad...
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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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Humanitarian |
Shirin Ebadi (Persian: شيرين عبادى Širin Ebādi; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. On 10 October 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...
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| x Unity Dow | Women's rights |
Unity Dow (born 23 April 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...
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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, physician and psychiatrist. She has written many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female...
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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 (14 September 1960 – 8 January 1998) was South Africa's best known Muslim women's rights activist, notable Islamic feminist and journalist.
She was born in Louis Trichardt (today South Africa’s Limpopo Province) just North of the...
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| x Emily Stowe |
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Women's rights |
Dr. Emily Howard Stowe (May 1, 1831 – April 29, 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 Stowe was related to...
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| x Ansar Burney |
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Women's rights |
Ansar Burney (Urdu: انصار برنی; born 14 August 1956 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan) is a leading Pakistani human rights and civil rights activist. He is a graduate of Masters and Law from Karachi University and honorary recipient of a PhD. in...
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| x Kathy Dettwyler | Breastfeeding |
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 | Breastfeeding |
Sheila Helena Elizabeth Kitzinger MBE (born 29 March 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 | Breastfeeding |
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 | Breastfeeding |
William Penton Sears (born 9 December 1939) 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...
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| x Pat Shelly | Breastfeeding |
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. An International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, ASPO...
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| x Marian Tompson |
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Breastfeeding |
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 a member of the Founders Advisory Council. Wife of the late Clement Tompson, she is the...
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| x Sylvia Pankhurst |
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Women's suffrage |
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was an English campaigner for the suffragist movement in the United Kingdom. She was for a time a prominent left communist who then devoted herself to the cause of anti-fascism.
Sylvia...
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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...
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| x Elizabeth Garrett Anderson |
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Women's suffrage |
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917), was an English physician and feminist, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first...
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| x Louisa Garrett Anderson |
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Women's suffrage |
Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson CBE (28 July 1873 – 15 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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