Lady Florence Caroline Dixie (24 May 1855 – 7 November 1905), before her marriage Lady Florence Douglas, was a British traveller, war correspondent, writer and feminist. Early life Born in Scotla...

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Elbridge Henry Goss, The History of Melrose, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, (The City of Melrose, 1902. Melrose, Mass.; A W Dunton & Co., Printers), "Electronic," Page 379. HON. SAMUEL EDMUND SE...

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From her official press biography: Chaz Hammel-Smith Ebert is the vice president of The Ebert Company. Previously, as a civil rights attorney, she was named Lawyer of the Year by the Constitutional...

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Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (December 19, 1820-May 23, 1905) was an abolitionist, and a key organizer for the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. Afterwards, she became a leader of t...

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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 15 September 1486 – 18 February 1535 Agrippa, a German magician, occult writer, theologian, astrologer, and alchemist, is perhaps best known for his masterpiece "De Occulta...

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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980), was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy. He was commonly known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre was a French existenti...

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Mary Ellen Pollard Clarke (1862–1939) was a prominent advocate of woman suffrage and wrote Human-Rights Not in Violation of States' Rights: An Appeal to the Men of Virginia (ca. 1915).

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Maybanke Anderson also known as Maybanke Wolstenholme (17 February 1845 - 15 April 1927) was a Sydney reformer involved in women's suffrage and education. Early life Maybanke Susannah Selfe...

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Martha Carey Thomas was born January 2, 1857, in Baltimore, Maryland, the eldest child of James Carey Thomas and Mary Whitall Thomas. Her father and paternal grandfather were physicians. Her mother was...

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith (February 7, 1832 – May 1, 1911) was a lay speaker and author in the Holiness movement in the United States and the Higher Life moveme...

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Mina Caroline Ginger Van Winkle (March 26, 1875 - January 16, 1932) was a crusading social worker, suffragist, and groundbreaking police lieutenant. From 1919 until her death in 1932 she led the Wome...

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Alice Zimmern (22 September 1855 – 22 March 1939) was an English writer, translator and suffragist. Background and education Zimmern was born in Nottingham, the youngest of the three daughter...

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Anna Doyle Wheeler (born c. 1785, Tipperary, Ireland, died 1848) was a writer and advocate of political rights for women and the benefits of contraception. She married Francis Massey Wheeler when she...

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Marion Talbot (July 31, 1858 – October 20, 1948) was Dean of Women at the University of Chicago from 1895 to 1925, and an influential leader in the higher education of women in the United States duri...

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Hannah Clark Johnston Bailey (July 5, 1839-October 23,1923) was born at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, New York. She was the eldest of 11 children of a family of Quaker pacifists. Hannah Johnston taught for 1...

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Josephine Elizabeth Butler (née Grey) (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...

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Harriet Williams Russell Strong (July 23, 1844 – September 6, 1926) was an American social activist, inventor, Conservationist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement. She is a member of th...

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Dame Margery Irene Corbett Ashby, DBE (19 April 1882 – 15 May 1981) was a British Liberal politician, feminist and internationalist. She was born at Danehill, East Sussex, the daughter of Charl...

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Marie Corbett (30 April 1859 – 28 March 1932) was an English suffragist, local government worker and supporter of the Liberal Party. Family Marie Gray was born in Kennington, London, the da...

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"Dorothy (Dora) Frances Montefiore (née Fuller) (20 December 1851 - 1933) was an English-Australian women's suffragist and socialist. She also wrote poetry, and her autobiography." ==================...

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Constance Antonina (Nina) Boyle (21 December 1865–4 March 1943), was a British journalist, campaigner for women’s suffrage and women’s rights, charity and welfare worker and novelist. She was one o...

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Wiki: Cicely Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892–15 March 1983), known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A p...

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Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell (22 September 1847 - 27 November 1922) was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. Biography Meynell was...

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Princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh (b. Elveden Hall, 8 August 1876; d. Hilden Hall, Tylers Green, 22 August 1948) was a prominent suffragette in the United Kingdom. She is best remembered for her...

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Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield (née Potter; 22 January 1858 – 30 April 1943), was an English sociologist, economist, socialist and social reformer. Although her husband became Baron Passfie...

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Catherine "Kate" Courtney, Baroness Courtney of Penwith (née Potter; 4 April 1847 - 26 February 1929), was a British social worker and internationalist. Active in charitable organizations in her earl...

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Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was a British writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her exp...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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Katharine Louisa Russell, Viscountess Amberley (née Stanley; 1844 – 28 June 1874), often referred to as Kate, was a British suffragette and an early advocate of birth control in the United Kingdom. S...

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Esther Roper (4 August 1868 – 28 April 1938) was an English suffragist who was one of the first women to graduate and gain her BA at Owens College in Manchester. She was the daughter of a Manchester ...

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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,...

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Constance Markievicz Constance Georgine Markievicz, Countess Markievicz (Polish: Konstancja Markiewicz; née Gore-Booth; 4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927) was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politici...

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MARY BERKELEY MINOR BLACKFORD (1802–1896) Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford (2 December 1802–15 September 1896), antislavery leader, was born in Fredericksburg, the only daughter and second or third of e...

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She was an advocate of suffrage and her first public speech was on its behalf at a 1912 pro-suffrage event in Washington, D.C. In 1928 she was the first woman elected from Bexar County to the Texas S...

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn b. August 7, 1890 in Concord, New Hampshire, d.September 5, 1964 in Moscow Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was 16 years old when she began her career as a leftist orator. She spent her ...

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Florence Ellinwood Allen (March 23, 1884 – September 12, 1966) was an American judge. She was the first woman to serve on a state supreme court and one of the first two women to serve as a federal ju...

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Assassination Attempt on Dr. Mukwege , Dr. Mukwege Fights Back Combating Rape as tool of War

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Hortense Sparks Ward (July 21, 1872 - December 5, 1944) was a pioneering Texas lawyer and women's rights activist. Born Hortense Sparks in Matagorda County, Texas, Ward grew up in Edna, Texas a...

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Esther Hobart Morris (August 8, 1814 – April 2, 1902), a Tioga County, New York native, distinguished herself as the first female Justice of the Peace in the United States. A mother of three boys, sh...

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Minnie Lansbury (1889 - 1 January 1922) was a leading suffragette and an alderman on the first Labour-led council in the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, England. Minnie was the daughter of Jewish...

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, born Mary Gray Phelps, (August 31, 1844 – January 28, 1911) was an American author and an early advocate of clothing reform for women, urging them to burn their corsets....

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Abraham Lincoln Filene (April 5, 1865 – August 27, 1957) was an American businessman, social entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was one of 5 children of William Filen...

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In January, 1919, Ada Davenport Kendall had joined a band of distinguished women from all over the United States to march on Washington and protest in support of women’s right to vote. They chained the...

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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. D...

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Katherine Duer Mackay (1880–1930) was a beautiful debutante from an old, high society, New York family. She met wealthy American financier Clarence Mackay on a steamship crossing between New York and E...

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Alice Freeman Palmer (February 21, 1855 – December 6, 1902) was an American educator. She was born Alice Elvira Freeman in Colesville, New York and brought up in Windsor, New York. Her parents bo...

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Emily Dunning Barringer (1876–1961) was the world's first female ambulance surgeon and the first woman to secure a surgical residency. Emily Dunning was born in Scarsdale, New York to Edwin James...

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Florence Kelley (September 12, 1859 – February 17, 1932) was an American social and political reformer. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's right...

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Source: Find A Grave memorial #22152195. Writer and political figure. She was a daughter of William French, a naval commander from Ireland. By the age of ten her father had died and her mother was ...

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Carrie Burnham Kilgore (1838-1909) First woman to graduate from the Universitity of Pennsylvania with a law degree (LL.B.) and the first woman to practice law in both Philadelphia and Pennsylvania; o...

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Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert; she advocated the Catholic economic theory of Distributism. She was also co...

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Richard Marsden Pankhurst (May, 1834 – 5 July 1898) was an English barrister and supporter of women's rights. Pankhurst was the son of Henry Francis Pankhurst (1806-1873) and Margaret Marsden (18...

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Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612 – September 16, 1672) was an English-American writer, the first notable American poet, and the first woman to be published in Colonial America. Her work was very influential ...

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Chappaqua, NY, USA

When Bill Clinton took office as president in January 1993, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the First Lady of the United States, and announced that she would be using that form of her name. She is the ju...

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Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Goth...

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John Lennon achieved worldwide fame in the 1960s as a singer, songwriter and guitarist in one of the most successful bands of all time - The Beatles . He is credited as being the original and founding ...

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Yoko Ono is a Japanese American artist and musician originally coming to wider attention through her relationship with The Beatles' John Lennon. An avante-garde artist, her relationship, and subsequent...

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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 ...

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Juliet Stuart Poyntz (1886–1937) was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and a founding member of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA). After resigning from ac...

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Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton (Jane Warton, Jane Wharton) (born 12 January 1869, Vienna, died 2 May 1923, Knebworth House) was an influential British suffragette activist, writer, speaker and...

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Elizabeth (Betsy) Fry (21 May 1780 – 12 October 1845), née Gurney, was an English prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Quaker, a Christian philanthropist. She has sometimes been referred to as ...

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As announced on page six the death occurred early this morning of Dame Millicent Fawcett. Millicent Garrett was born on June 11, 1847, the seventh child of Newson Garrett, J.P., of Aldburgh, in...

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Annie was a prominent British Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule.

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Max Forrester Eastman (January 4, 1883 – March 25, 1969) was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society, a poet, and a prominent political activist. For many years, Eastman was a suppor...

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BIRTH DATE : c.1820. Because she was a slave, and owners did not record their slaves' birthdates, the exact date of Harriet's birth is unknown -- different accounts list 1820 or 1821. BIRTH PLACE : (...

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Adela Constantia Mary Pankhurst Walsh (1885–1961) was a British-Australian suffragette, political organizer, and co-founder of both the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First Movement. ...

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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 h...

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Alva Belmont (17 January 1853 – 26 January 1933), née Alva Erskine Smith, and known as Alva Vanderbilt from 1875 to 1896, was a prominent multi-millionaire American socialite and a major figure in th...

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Member, Democratic National Committee. Served in National politics for 44 years and was oldest member of DNC at her death. Emma (Guffey) Miller, Democratic Party leader, was born Mary Emma Guffey at ...

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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 ...

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Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 - 11 December 1920) was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm which has be...

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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, born in Richmond, Va., on 22 April 1873, published her first novel, The Descendant, in 1897, when she was 24 years old. With this novel Glasgow began a literary career e...

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Julia Orr Edson was born on August 29, 1851, in Albany, NY, the daughter of Cyrus Edson and Martha (KNM called her Mary, apparently in error) Davison Edson. See a photo of Julia Orr Edson at the age ...

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Charlotte Anita Whitney (July 7, 1867 – February 4, 1955), best known as "Anita Whitney," was an American women's rights activist, political activist, suffragist, and early Communist Labor Party and ...

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Henrietta Wells Livermore (May 22, 1864 - October 15, 1933) organized the first meeting of suffragists at her Park Avenue apartment in 1910, which became the Women's National Republican Club. Bio...

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Margaret Ladd Franklin became a prominent member in the women’s suffrage movement. She was the author of The Case for Woman Suffrage: A Bibliography.

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Inez Milholland Boissevain (August 6, 1886 – November 25, 1916) was a suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent, and public speaker who greatly influenced the women's movement in America....

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Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 - August 22, 1942) was an American writer and poet. Biography Alice Duer was born in New York City on July 28, 1874 into a wealthy family. She was the daughte...

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Barbara Deming (July 23, 1917 – August 2, 1984) was an American feminist and advocate of nonviolent social change. Early life Barbara Deming was born in New York City. She attended a Friends ...

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Helen Herron Taft Manning (August 1, 1891-February 21, 1987), was the second child and only daughter of President of the United States William Howard Taft and his wife Helen Herron. Like her olde...

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Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn (February 2, 1878 – March 17, 1951) was an American feminist social reformer and a leader of the suffrage movement in the United States. Hepburn served as president ...

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Janet Ayer Fairbank (June 7, 1878 - December 28, 1951) was an American author and suffragette, socially and politically active in Chicago and a champion of progressive causes. She attended the Univer...

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Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820) was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essayist, playwright, poet, and letter writer. She was one of the first American proponents of the idea of the ...

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Suffragette. Born in Painesville Ohio, she was the only daughter of Charles C. and Mehetable (Park) Jennings. Her father, a well known abolitionist, was a teacher in the Painesville Public School sys...

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New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Ani DiFranco is an American singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums and is widely considered a feminist icon. DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York, to Elizabet...

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From - (please visit for full citations) Emmeline Pankhurst (born Emmeline Goulden) (15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement which...

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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 dire...

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Mrs Edward Candee (Helen Churchill Hungerford), 53, was born in New York City on October 5, 1859 the daughter of Henry Hungerford and Mary E. Churchill. She was educated in various private schools in N...

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Margretta Dietrich was an American sufragette and activist. Biography Born Margretta Stewart Shaw on November 23 or 26, 1881 in Philadelphia to Dr. William Shaw and Delia Allman Stewart. Her ...

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Name: Mrs Edith Martha Bowerman Chibnall (née Barber) Born: Saturday 27th February 1864 Age: 48 years Last Residence: in St. Leonards-on-Sea Sussex England Occupation: Of Independent Means ...

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Blanche Ames Ames (1878 – 1969) was an artist and prominent supporter of women's suffrage and birth control. Born Blanche Ames in Lowell, Massachusetts, daughter of Civil War General and Missis...

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Elsie Edith Bowerman Her father died when she was 5 years old. She went to Wycombe Abbey at the age of 11 in 1901 where she came under the influence of Frances Dove, whose biography she wrote. She ...

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Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927) was an American leader of the woman's suffrage movement. Woodhull was an advocate of free love. She ...

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Tennessee Celeste Claflin (October 26, 1845 – January 18, 1923), also known as Tennie C. and later Lady Cook, was an American suffragist best known as one of the first women to open a Wall Street bro...

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Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (August 7, 1813 – August 24, 1876) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, and educator. Paulina Kellogg was born in Bloomfield, New York, to Captain Ebenezer Kello...

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Myra Colby Bradwell (February 12, 1831 – February 14, 1894) was a publisher and political activist. She was the first woman to be admitted to the Illinois bar to become the first female lawyer in Ill...

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas (April 7, 1890 – May 14, 1998) was an American journalist, writer, feminist, and environmentalist known for her staunch defense of the Everglades against efforts to drain it ...

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