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| x Annie Arniel |
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Women's suffrage |
Annie Arniel (April 24, 1861 – January 7, 1941) was a suffragist and women's rights advocate. Born on Howe Island, Ontario, Canada, Annie played a key role in helping to win the women's vote in the United States. A factory worker, living in downtown...
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| x Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor |
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Women's suffrage |
Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH, (May 19, 1879 – May 2, 1964) was the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons. (Constance Markiewicz was the first woman elected to serve in the House of Commons...
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| x Hubertine Auclert |
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Women's suffrage |
Hubertine Auclert (April 10, 1848 – August 4, 1914) was a leading French feminist and a campaigner for women's suffrage.
Born in the Allier département in the Auvergne area of France into a middle-class family, Hubertine Auclert's father died when...
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| x Dorothea Beale |
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Women's suffrage |
Dorothea Beale (21 March 1831 – 9 November 1906) was an English teacher.
Born in Bishopsgate, England, she was the founder of St Hilda's College, Oxford. Her name is associated with that of Frances Buss in a satirical rhyme:
The lines refer to their...
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| x Mary Gawthorpe |
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Women's suffrage |
Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe (1881-1973) was a British suffragette, socialist, trade unionist and editor, described by Rebecca West as "a merry militant saint".
After qualifying as a teacher in her native Leeds Mary became a socialist and was active in...
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| x Lydia Becker |
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Women's suffrage |
Lydia Ernestine Becker (24 February 1827 – 18 July 1890) was a leader in the early British suffrage movement, as well as an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. She is best remembered for founding and publishing the Women's...
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| x Louie Bennett | Women's suffrage |
Louie Bennett (1870 – 1956) was an Irish suffragette, Trades Unionist and journalist and writer born in Ireland. In 1927 she was the first woman to be elected President of the Irish Trades Union Conference and in the same year was elected to the...
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| x Ethel Bentham | Women's suffrage |
Dr. Ethel Bentham (5 January 1861 – 19 January 1931) was a progressive doctor, a politician and a suffragette in the United Kingdom. She was born in Ireland, educated at Alexandra School and College in Dublin, the London School of Medicine for Women...
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| x Annie Besant |
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Women's suffrage |
Annie Wood Besant (pronounced /ˈbɛsənt/; Clapham, London October 1, 1847 – September 20, 1933 in Adyar, India) was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule.
Annie Wood was born...
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| x Rosa May Billinghurst | Women's suffrage |
Rosa May Billinghurst, a suffragette, was born in Lewisham, London, in 1875.
As a child she suffered total paralysis which left her disabled throughout her adult life. However, this did not prevent her becoming active in social work in a Greenwich...
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| x Teresa Billington-Greig | Women's suffrage |
Teresa Billington-Greig (1877–1964) was a suffragette who created the Women's Freedom League. She left another suffrage organisation the WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union) as she considered the leadership too autocratic.
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| x Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch |
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Women's suffrage |
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (January 20, 1856 – November 20, 1940) was a notable American writer and suffragist and the daughter of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
She was born in Seneca Falls, New York, to social...
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| x Amelia Bloomer |
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Women's suffrage |
Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818 – December 30, 1894) was an American women's rights and temperance advocate. Even though she did not create the women's clothing reform style known as bloomers, her name became associated with it because of her...
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| x Margaret Bondfield |
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Women's suffrage |
Margaret Grace Bondfield (17 March 1873 – 16 June 1953) was an English Labour politician and feminist, the first woman Cabinet minister in the United Kingdom and one of the first three female Labour MPs. Like many figures of the Labour movement,...
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| x Catherine Booth |
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Women's suffrage |
Catherine Booth (17 January 1829 – 4 October 1890) was the wife of the founder of The Salvation Army, William Booth. Because of her influence in the formation of The Salvation Army she was known as the 'Army Mother'.
She was born Catherine Mumford...
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| x Elsie Bowerman | Women's suffrage |
Elsie Edith Bowerman (18 December 1889 - 18 October 1973) was a lawyer, suffragette and RMS Titanic survivor.
Elsie Edith Bowerman was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the daughter of William Bowerman and his wife Edith Martha Barber. Her father died...
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| x Vera Brittain | Women's suffrage |
Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of...
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| x Lucy Burns |
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Women's suffrage |
Lucy Burns (July 28, 1879 – December 22, 1966) was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. She was a close friend of Alice Paul. Together, they formed the National Woman's Party.
Burns was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Irish Catholic...
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| x Frances Buss |
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Women's suffrage |
Frances Mary Buss (16 August 1827 – 24 December 1894) was a headmistress and an English pioneer of women's education.
The daughter of Robert William Buss, a painter and etcher, and his wife, Frances Fleetwood, Buss was one of six of their ten...
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| x Josephine Butler |
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Women's suffrage |
Josephine Elizabeth Butler (13 April 1828 – 30 December 1906) was a Victorian era British feminist who was especially concerned with the welfare of prostitutes. She led the long campaign for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts from 1869 to...
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| x Mona Caird | Women's suffrage |
Mona Caird (née Mona Alison, also called Alice Mona Henryson Caird) (1854?-1932) was a Scottish novelist and essayist whose feminist views sparked controversy in the late 19th century. (The year of her birth is uncertain, sometimes given as 1855 or...
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| x Carrie Chapman Catt |
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Women's suffrage |
Carrie Chapman Catt (January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947) was a woman's suffrage leader. She was elected president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) twice; her first term was from 1900 to 1904 and her second term was from 1915...
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| x Anne Clough | Women's suffrage |
Anne Jemima Clough (20 January 1820 – 27 February 1892) was an early English suffragist and a promoter of higher education for women.
Clough was born at Liverpool, the daughter of a cotton merchant. She was the sister of Arthur Hugh Clough, the poet...
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| x Leonora Cohen | Women's suffrage |
Leonora Cohen OBE (June 1873 – November 1978) was a British suffragette.
She was known for smashing the case of the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London. She survived a hunger strike in Armley Jail in Leeds.
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| x Margaret Cole | Women's suffrage |
Dame Margaret Isabel Cole, DBE (6 May 1893 - 7 May 1980) was an English socialist politician.
Daughter of John Percival Postgate and Edith Allen, Margaret was educated at Roedean School and Girton College, Cambridge. While at Girton, through her...
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| x Selina Cooper | Women's suffrage |
Selina Cooper (1864-1946) was an English Suffragist and the first woman to represent the Independent Labour Party in 1901 when she was elected as a Poor Law Guardian.
Born in Callington, Cornwall in 1864, her mother moved to Pendle, Lancashire in...
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| x Edith Cowan |
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Women's suffrage |
Edith Dircksey Cowan (née Brown), MBE (2 August 1861–9 June 1932) was an Australian politician, social campaigner and the first woman elected as a representative in an Australian parliament.
Edith Brown was born and raised in Glengarry (HI) Station...
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| x Richmal Crompton |
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Women's suffrage |
Richmal Crompton Lamburn (15 November 1890 – 11 January 1969) was a British writer, most famous for her Just William humorous short stories and books.
Richmal Crompton Lamburn was born in Bury, Lancashire, the second child of the Rev Edward John...
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| x Mary Crudelius | Women's suffrage |
Mary Crudelius (née McLean, 1839 - 1877) was a British campaigner for women's education who lived in Leith, Edinburgh in the 1860s and 1870s, and was a supporter of women's suffrage.
She was born in Bury, Lancashire on 23 February 1839 to Scottish...
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| x Emily Davies |
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Women's suffrage |
Sarah Emily Davies (22 April 1830 – 13 July 1921) was an English feminist, suffragist and a pioneering campaigner for women's rights to university access. She was born in Southampton, England to an evangelical clergyman and a teacher in 1830,...
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| x Emily Davison |
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Women's suffrage |
Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 11 June 1913) was an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She died three days after she was struck by King George V's horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby on the 4th June 1913.
Davison was born in...
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| x Maria Deraismes |
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Women's suffrage |
Maria Deraismes (August 17, 1828 – February 6, 1894) was a French author and major pioneering force for women's rights.
Born in Paris, Maria Deraismes grew up in Pontoise in the city's northwest outskirts. From a prosperous middle class family, she...
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| x Jeanne Deroin |
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Women's suffrage |
Jeanne Deroin (31 December 1805 – 2 April 1894) was a French socialist feminist.
Born in Paris, Deroin became a seamstress. In 1831, she joined the followers of utopian socialist Henri de Saint-Simon. For her required statement of her belief in...
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| x Charlotte Despard | Women's suffrage |
Charlotte Despard (née French) (1844 – 1939) was a British-born, later Irish-based suffragist, novelist and Sinn Féin activist.
She was born in Ripple, Kent. Her brother, John French, would become Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. She expressed regret of...
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| x Hedwig Dohm | Women's suffrage |
Marianne Adelaide Hedwig Dohm born Schlesinger, later Schleh (September 20, 1831 - June 1, 1919) was a German actress, feminist, and author.
She was born in Berlin to Jewish parents, as a daughter of (Henriette) Wilhelmine Jülich, nee Beru (lastname...
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| x Abigail Scott Duniway |
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Women's suffrage |
Abigail Scott Duniway (October 22, 1834 – October 11, 1915) was an American women's rights advocate, newspaper editor and writer, whose efforts were instrumental in gaining voting rights for women.
Duniway was born Abigail Jane Scott near Groveland,...
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| x Flora Drummond |
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Women's suffrage |
Flora McKinnon Drummond aka The General (née Gibson, later Simpson, 1878- 17 January 1949) was a British suffragette who was born in Manchester but raised on the Isle of Arran. Nicknamed The General for her habit of leading Women's Rights marches...
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| x Marguerite Durand |
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Women's suffrage |
Marguerite Durand (January 24, 1864 – March 16, 1936) was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette.
Born into a middle-class family, Marguerite Durand was sent to study at a Roman Catholic convent. After finishing her primary...
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| x Max Eastman |
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Women's suffrage |
Max Forrester Eastman (January 4, 1883 – March 25, 1969) was an American writer on literature, politics and society; supporter of progressive causes, and patron of the Harlem Renaissance.
He was born in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York. Both...
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| x Millicent Fawcett |
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Women's suffrage |
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE LLD (11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English suffragist (one who campaigned for women to have the vote) and an early feminist.
She was born Millicent Garrett in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. As a suffragist, as opposed...
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| x Clara S. Foltz |
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Women's suffrage |
Clara Shortridge Foltz (1849-1934) was the first female lawyer on the West Coast. She was the sister of U.S. Senator Samuel M. Shortridge. The Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles was renamed after her in 2002, and is now known as the...
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| x Elizabeth Fry |
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Women's suffrage |
Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney) (21 May 1780 – 12 October 1845) was an English prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Quaker, a Christian philanthropist.
Fry was a major driving force behind new legislation to make the treatment of prisoners more...
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| x Fanny Furner | Women's suffrage |
Fanny Furner (1864 - 1938) was an activist who worked to further the rights of women and children in the early 1900s in Sydney.
Fanny Furner was one of the first female JPs in New South Wales and along with fellow member of the Theosophical Society,...
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| x Matilda Joslyn Gage |
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Women's suffrage |
Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (Cicero, New York, March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898 in Chicago) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression".
Matilda Gage...
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| x Eva Gore-Booth | Women's suffrage |
Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth (22 May 1870 – 30 June 1926) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist. She was born at Lissadell House, County Sligo, the younger sister of Constance Gore-Booth, later...
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| x Olympe de Gouges |
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Women's suffrage |
Olympe de Gouges (7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793), born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience.
She began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s. As...
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| x Nellie Hall | Women's suffrage |
Nellie Hall (given name Emmeline) (1895-?) was a British suffragette and god-daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst after whom she was named.
Nellie began her political activism in 1909 at the age of fourteen when she joined the nightly protests against...
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| x Cicely Hamilton | Women's suffrage |
Cicely Mary Hamilton (15 June 1872 – 6 December 1952), born Hammill, was an English actress, writer, journalist, suffragist and feminist. She is now best known for the play Diana of Dobson's, with a setting in an Edwardian department store.
She was...
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| x Jane Ellen Harrison |
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Women's suffrage |
Jane Ellen Harrison (9 September 1850–5 April 1928) was a British classical scholar, linguist and feminist. Harrison is one of the founders, with Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, of modern studies in Greek mythology. She applied 19th century...
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| x Emily Hobhouse |
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Women's suffrage |
Emily Hobhouse (9 April 1860 – 8 June 1926) was a British welfare campaigner, who is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the appalling conditions inside the British concentration camps in...
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| x Winifred Holtby | Women's suffrage |
Winifred Holtby (23 June 1898 - 29 September 1935) was an English novelist and journalist.
Born to a prosperous farming family in the village of Rudston, Yorkshire. Holtby was educated at home by a governess and then at Queen Margaret's School in...
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| x Julia Ward Howe |
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Women's suffrage |
Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Born Julia Ward in New York City, she was the fourth of seven children...
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| x Elizabeth How-Martyn | Women's suffrage |
Edith How-Martyn (1875-1954) was a British suffragette and a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). She was arrested in 1906 for attempting to make a speech in the House of Commons. This was one of the first acts of suffragette...
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| x Elsie Inglis |
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Women's suffrage |
Elsie Inglis (16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917) was an innovative Scottish doctor and suffragist.
She was born in the hill station town of Naini Tal, India, to a father who worked in the Indian civil service. She had the good fortune to have...
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| x Aletta Jacobs |
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Women's suffrage |
Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs, better known as Aletta Jacobs (9 February 1854 - 10 August 1929) was the first woman to complete a university course in the Netherlands and the first female physician. She was born to a Jewish doctor's family in Sappemeer....
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| x Ada James | Women's suffrage |
Ada Lois James (March 23, 1876 – September 29, 1952) was a suffragist, social worker, and reformer. Born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, she graduated from high school in 1894, taught school for several years, and soon became active in the woman's...
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| x Sophia Jex-Blake |
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Women's suffrage |
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake (21 January 1840 – 7 January 1912) was an English physician, teacher and feminist. She was one of the first female doctors in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, a leading campaigner for medical education for...
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| x Annie Kenney |
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Women's suffrage |
Annie Kenney (13 September 1879 – 9 July 1953) was an English working-class suffragette who is credited with sparking off suffragette militancy when she heckled Winston Churchill.
During a Liberal rally at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, in October...
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| x Ellen Key |
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Women's suffrage |
Ellen Karolina Sofia Key (Swedish pronunciation: [kej]; December 11, 1849 – April 25, 1926) was a Swedish feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education.
Born at Sundsholm mansion, Sweden (Småland), she was an...
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| x Grace Kimmins | Women's suffrage |
Dame Grace Kimmins, DBE (1871-1954) was described in Punch (volume 156, April 9, 1919) as '... in her quiet practical way is probably as good a friend as London ever had', a remarkable description for the driving force behind the Guild of Play and...
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