List of suffragists and suffragettes
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This is a list of suffragists and suffragettes who were campaigners for women's suffrage
Women's suffrage
Women's suffrage or woman suffrage is the right of women to vote and to run for office. The expression is also used for the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending these rights to women and without any restrictions or qualifications such as property ownership, payment of tax, or...

. Suffragists and suffragette
Suffragette
"Suffragette" is a term coined by the Daily Mail newspaper as a derogatory label for members of the late 19th and early 20th century movement for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, in particular members of the Women's Social and Political Union...

s were often members of different societies which had the same aim, but used differing tactics: for example, suffragettes in the British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 usage denotes a more 'militant
Militant
The word militant, which is both an adjective and a noun, usually is used to mean vigorously active, combative and aggressive, especially in support of a cause, as in 'militant reformers'. It comes from the 15th century Latin "militare" meaning "to serve as a soldier"...

' type of campaigner.

American (United States)

  • Jane Addams
    Jane Addams
    Jane Addams was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace...

  • Susan B. Anthony
    Susan B. Anthony
    Susan Brownell Anthony 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 of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President...

  • Annie Arniel
    Annie Arniel
    Annie Arniel was a suffragist and women's rights advocate. Born in Harrington, Delaware, United States, as Anna L. Melvin, she married George Arniel of Canada and was widowed in 1910. Annie played a key role in helping to win the women's vote in the United States...

  • Bertha Hirsch Baruch
    Bertha Hirsch Baruch
    Bertha Hirsch Baruch was an American writer and suffragette.Bertha Hirsch Baruch was born in the Province of Posen, Germany. She came to New London, Connecticut with her father in 1876. She wrote poetry in her teens and was encouraged by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop in her literary efforts. Active in...

  • Harriet Eaton Stanton Blatch
  • Amelia Bloomer
    Amelia Bloomer
    Amelia Jenks Bloomer 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 early and strong advocacy.-Early life:Bloomer came from a family of modest means and...

  • Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
    Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
    Madeline McDowell Breckinridge was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement and one of Kentucky's leading Progressive reformers. She was also known as Madge Breckinridge and Mrs...

  • Sophonisba Breckinridge
    Sophonisba Breckinridge
    Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge was an American activist, Progressive Era social reformer, social scientist and innovator in higher education.- Background :...

  • Lucy Burns
    Lucy Burns
    Lucy Burns was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. She was a passionate activist in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Burns was a close friend of Alice Paul, and together they ultimately formed the National Woman's Party.-Early life and education:Lucy Burns was born in...

  • Frances Jennings Casement
    Frances Jennings Casement
    Frances Jennings Casement was a U.S. suffragette and voting advocate from Painesville, Ohio. Her father Charles C. Jennings was a politician active in the abolition movement in the 1830s. Frances married General John S. Casement in 1857...

     (1840 – 1928)
  • Carrie Chapman Catt
    Carrie Chapman Catt
    Carrie Chapman Catt was a women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920...

  • Nancy Cook
    Nancy Cook
    Nancy Cook was an American suffragette, teacher, part owner of the Todhunter School and an intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt.-Birth and early life:...

     (August 26, 1884 – August 16, 1962)
  • Tennessee Celeste Claflin
    Tennessee Celeste Claflin
    Tennessee Celeste Claflin , 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 brokerage firm...

     (October 26, 1844 – January 18, 1923)
  • Laura Clay
    Laura Clay
    Laura Clay , co-founder and first president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association, was a leader of the American women’s suffrage movement...

  • Marion Dickerman
    Marion Dickerman
    Marion Dickerman was an American suffragette, educator, vice-principal of the Todhunter School and an intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt.-Birth and early life:...

     (April 11, 1890 – May 16, 1983)
  • Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing...

  • Abigail Scott Duniway
    Abigail Scott Duniway
    Abigail Scott Duniway was an American women's rights advocate, newspaper editor and writer, whose efforts were instrumental in gaining voting rights for women.-Biography:...

  • Max Eastman
    Max Eastman
    Max Forrester Eastman was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society, a poet, and a prominent political activist. For many years, Eastman was a supporter of socialism, a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes...

  • Helga Estby
    Helga Estby
    Helga Estby was a Norwegian-American immigrant most noted for her walk across the United States during 1896.-Biography:...

  • Janet Ayer Fairbank
    Janet Ayer Fairbank
    Janet Ayer Fairbank was an American author and suffragette, socially and politically active in Chicago and a champion of progressive causes. She attended the University of Chicago and in 1900 married the lawyer Kellogg Fairbank, the son of industrialist N. K. Fairbank...

     (June 7, 1878 - December 28, 1951)
  • Clara S. Foltz
    Clara S. Foltz
    Clara Shortridge Foltz was the first female lawyer on the West Coast. She was the sister of U.S. Senator Samuel M. Shortridge...

  • Elizabeth Fouse
    Elizabeth Fouse
    Elizabeth Beatrice Cooke Fouse was a Kentucky woman dedicated to gaining equality for African American women on both local and national levels. She founded as well as became the head of many organizations, with the ultimate goal of ending discrimination...

  • Matilda Joslyn Gage
    Matilda Joslyn Gage
    Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression".-Early activities:...

  • Sarah Grimke
    Sarah Grimké
    Sarah Moore Grimké was an American abolitionist, writer, and suffragist.-Early life:Sarah Grimké was born in South Carolina. She was sixth of fourteen children and the second daughter of Mary and John Faucheraud Grimké, a rich plantation owner who was also an attorney and a judge in South Carolina...

  • Eliza Caroline "Lida" Calvert Obenchain
    Eliza Calvert Hall
    Eliza Caroline "Lida" Obenchain , was an American author, women's rights advocate and suffragist from Bowling Green, Kentucky...

     (pen name Eliza Calvert Hall)
  • Florence Jaffray Harriman
    Florence Jaffray Harriman
    Florence Jaffray "Daisy" Harriman was an American socialite, suffragist, social reformer, organizer, and diplomat...

  • Josephine K. Henry
    Josephine K. Henry
    Josephine Kirby Henry was an American Progressive Era women's rights leader, suffragist, social reformer, and writer from Versailles, Kentucky in the United States. Henry was a strong advocate for women and was a leading proponent of legislation that would grant married women property rights...

  • Katharine Houghton Hepburn
    Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn
    Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn was an American feminist social reformer and a leader of the suffrage movement in the United States. Hepburn served as president of the Connecticut Woman's Suffrage Association before joining the National Woman's Party. Alongside Margaret Sanger, Hepburn co-founded...

  • Julia Ward Howe
    Julia Ward Howe
    Julia Ward Howe was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet, most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".-Biography:...

  • Ada James
    Ada James
    Ada Lois James 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 suffrage movement in which both her parents were playing prominent roles.In 1911 she...

  • David G. James
  • Kyllie Kempin
  • Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin
    Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin
    Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin was an American suffragette, civil rights activist, organization executive, and community practitioner whose career spanned over half a century...

     (August 9, 1883–March 10, 1965)
  • David Francis McNamara Liakos
  • Florence Luscomb
    Florence Luscomb
    Florence Hope Luscomb was an American architect and women's suffrage activist in Massachusetts. One of the first women to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in architecture, Luscomb became a partner in an early woman-owned architecture firm before work in the...

  • Clara McDiarmid
  • Jane Hungerford Milbank
    Jane Hungerford Milbank
    Jane Hungerford Milbank was an American suffragette who organized the Army of Columbians.-Biography:She was born on April 10, 1871 in Sparta, Georgia as Jane Hungerford. She married Charles B. Milbank and they had a son: Charles H. E. Milbank. By an earlier marriage Jane had another son: Cambridge...

     (April 10, 1871 - March 6, 1931)
  • Inez Milholland
    Inez Milholland
    Inez Milholland Boissevain was a suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent, and public speaker who greatly influenced the women's movement in America.-Biography:...

  • Harriet May Mills
    Harriet May Mills House
    The Harriet May Mills House or Harriet May Mills Residence is a historic home on the west side of Syracuse, New York. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2002...

  • Abigail Crawford Milton
  • Lucretia Mott
    Lucretia Mott
    Lucretia Coffin Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights.- Early life and education:...

  • Rosa Parks
    Rosa Parks
    Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement"....

  • Alice Paul
    Alice Paul
    Alice Stokes Paul was an American suffragist and activist. Along with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.-Activism: Alice Paul received her undergraduate education from...

  • Wenona Pinkham
  • Helen Pitts (1838–1903)
  • Margaret Sanger
    Margaret Sanger
    Margaret Higgins Sanger was an American sex educator, nurse, and birth control activist. Sanger coined the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established Planned Parenthood...

  • Julia Sears
    Julia Sears
    Julia Sears was a pioneering academic and suffragette. She achieved a milestone early in her career when in 1872 she became the first woman in the U.S. to head a public college, Minnesota State Normal College at Mankato, now Minnesota State University, Mankato...

  • Dr Anna Howard Shaw
    Anna Howard Shaw
    Anna Howard Shaw was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and the first ordained female Methodist minister in the United States. Her birthday is celebrated as Anna Howard Shaw Day, as an alternative to St. Valentine's Day.-Early Life:Shaw was...

  • Mary Shaw (1854–1929)
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement...

  • Doris Stevens
    Doris Stevens
    Doris Stevens was an American suffragist and author of Jailed for Freedom.Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Doris Stevens graduated from Oberlin College in 1911. She worked as a teacher and social worker in Ohio and Michigan before she became a regional organizer with the National American Woman Suffrage...

  • Lucy Stone
    Lucy Stone
    Lucy Stone was a prominent American abolitionist and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone was the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery at a time when women were discouraged...

  • Lydia Taft
    Lydia Taft
    Lydia Chapin was the first known legal woman voter in colonial America. This occurred in the New England town Town Meeting, at Uxbridge, MA Massachusetts Colony.-Early life:...

  • Melvin Thester
  • M. Carey Thomas
    M. Carey Thomas
    Martha Carey Thomas was an American educator, suffragist, and second President of Bryn Mawr College.-Early life:...

  • Ruby Cora Thompson
  • Sojourner Truth
    Sojourner Truth
    Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, she...

  • Harriet Tubman
    Harriet Tubman
    Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Harriet Ross; (1820 – 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves...

  • Mina Van Winkle
    Mina Van Winkle
    Mina C. Van Winkle was a crusading social worker, suffragist, and groundbreaking police lieutenant. From 1919 until her death in 1932 she led the Women’s Bureau of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia , and became a national leader in the protection of girls and other...

  • Ida B. Wells
    Ida B. Wells
    Ida Bell Wells-Barnett 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 United States, showing how it was often a way to control or punish blacks who...

  • Victoria Woodhull
    Victoria Woodhull
    Victoria Claflin Woodhull was an American leader of the woman's suffrage movement, an advocate of free love; together with her sister, the first women to operate a brokerage in Wall Street; the first women to start a weekly newspaper; an activist for women's rights and labor reforms and, in 1872,...



Australian

  • Muriel Matters
    Muriel Matters
    Muriel Lilah Matters was an Australian born suffragist, lecturer, journalist, educator, actress and elocutionist...

  • Edith Cowan
    Edith Cowan
    Edith Dircksey Cowan , MBE was an Australian politician, social campaigner and the first woman elected to an Australian parliament....

  • Henrietta Dugsdale
  • Charlotte Fulton
  • Fanny Furner
    Fanny Furner
    Fanny Furner was an activist who worked to further the rights of women and children in the early 1900s in Sydney.-Accomplishments:...

  • Vida Goldstein
    Vida Goldstein
    Vida Jane Mary Goldstein was an early Australian feminist politician who campaigned for women's suffrage and social reform.-Early years:...

  • Alice Hey
  • Serena Lake
  • Louisa Lawson
    Louisa Lawson
    Louisa Lawson was an Australian writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist. She was the mother of the poet and author Henry Lawson.-Early life:...

  • Mary Lee
  • Emma Miller
    Emma Miller
    Emma Miller was a pioneer trade union organiser, suffragist, and founder of the Australian Labor Party in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.-Early life:...

  • Elizabeth Nicholls
  • Rose Scott
    Rose Scott
    Rose Scott was an Australian women's rights activist who protested for women's suffrage and universal suffrage in New South Wales at the turn-of-the twentieth century .-Early life:...

  • Catherine Helen Spence
    Catherine Helen Spence
    Catherine Helen Spence was a Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and leading suffragette. In 1897 she became Australia's first female political candidate after standing for the Federal Convention held in Adelaide...

  • Jessie Street
    Jessie Street
    Jessie Mary Grey Street was an Australian suffragette, feminist and human rights campaigner....


British and Northern Irish

  • Mary Sophia Allen
    Mary Sophia Allen
    Mary Sophia Allen was a Welsh-born British woman who worked for women's rights. She is chiefly noted as one of the founders of the Women's Police Volunteers as well as for her involvement in far right political activity....

  • Romana Alli
  • Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
    Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
    Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD , was an English physician and feminist, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain and the first female mayor in England.-Early life:...

  • Louisa Garrett Anderson
    Louisa Garrett Anderson
    Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson CBE 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 Anderson. Her aunt, Dame Millicent Fawcett was a British suffragist...

  • Nancy Astor
    Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
    Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH, was the first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons.Constance Markievicz was the first woman elected to the House of Commons in December 1918 after running for the Sinn Féin party in 1918 General Election, but in line...

  • Dorothea Beale
    Dorothea Beale
    Dorothea Beale LLD was a suffragist, educational reformer, author and Principal of the Cheltenham Ladies' College.Born in Bishopsgate, England, she was the founder of St Hilda's College, Oxford....

  • Mary Gawthorpe
    Mary Gawthorpe
    Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe was a British suffragette, socialist, trade unionist and editor, described by Rebecca West as "a merry militant saint"....

  • Lydia Becker
    Lydia Becker
    Lydia Ernestine Becker was a leader in the early British suffrage movement, as well as an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy...

  • Ethel Bentham
    Ethel Bentham
    Dr. Ethel Bentham 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 and the Rotunda Hospital...

  • Fanny Goodsworth
  • Annie Besant
    Annie Besant
    Annie Besant was a prominent British Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule.She was married at 19 to Frank Besant but separated from him over religious differences. She then became a prominent speaker for the National Secular Society ...

  • Rosa May Billinghurst
    Rosa May Billinghurst
    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 workhouse, teaching in a Sunday School and joining...

  • Teresa Billington-Greig
    Teresa Billington-Greig
    Teresa Billington-Greig was a suffragette who created the Women's Freedom League. She left another suffrage organisation the WSPU as she considered the leadership too autocratic.-Life:...

  • Margaret Bondfield
    Margaret Bondfield
    Margaret Grace Bondfield 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...

  • Catherine Booth
    Catherine Booth
    Catherine Booth 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'....

  • Elsie Bowerman
    Elsie Bowerman
    Elsie Edith Bowerman was a lawyer, suffragette and RMS Titanic survivor.- Early life :Elsie Edith Bowerman was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the daughter of William Bowerman and his wife Edith Martha Barber. Her father died when she was 5 years old...

  • Vera Brittain
    Vera Brittain
    Vera Mary Brittain was a British 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 her journey towards pacifism.-Life:Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Brittain was the...

  • Frances Buss
    Frances Buss
    Frances Mary Buss 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 children to survive into adulthood...

  • Josephine Butler
    Josephine Butler
    Josephine Elizabeth Butler was a Victorian era British feminist who was especially concerned with the welfare of prostitutes...

  • Mona Caird
    Mona Caird
    Mona Caird was a Scottish novelist and essayist whose feminist views sparked controversy in the late 19th century...

  • Mabel Capper
    Mabel Capper
    Mabel Henrietta Capper was a Brtish Suffragette. She gave all her time between 1907 and 1913 to the Women's Social and Political Union as a 'soldier' in the struggle for women's Suffrage. She was imprisoned six times, went on hunger strike and was one of the first Suffragettes to be forcibly fed...

  • Ada Churchill-Sawyer
  • Anne Clough
    Anne Clough
    Anne Jemima Clough 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 and assistant to Florence Nightingale. When two years old she was taken with the rest...

  • Leonora Cohen
    Leonora Cohen
    Leonora Cohen OBE 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....

  • Margaret Cole
    Margaret Cole
    Dame Margaret Isabel Cole, DBE 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 reading of H. G...

  • Selina Cooper
    Selina Cooper
    Selina Cooper 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....

  • Richmal Crompton
    Richmal Crompton
    Richmal Crompton Lamburn was a British writer, most famous for her Just William humorous short stories and books.-Life:...

  • Mary Crudelius
    Mary Crudelius
    Mary Crudelius 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....

  • Emily Davies
    Emily Davies
    Sarah Emily Davies was an English feminist, suffragist and a pioneering campaigners fore women's rights to university access. She was born in Southampton, England to an evangelical clergyman and a teacher in 1830, although she spent most of her youth in Gateshead...

  • Emily Davison
    Emily Davison
    Emily Wilding Davison was a militant women's suffrage activist who, on 4 June 1913, after a series of actions that were either self-destructive or violent, stepped in front of a horse running in the Epsom Derby, sustaining injuries that resulted in her death four days later.-Biography:Davison was...

  • Charlotte Despard
    Charlotte Despard
    Charlotte Despard was a British-born, later Irish-based suffragist, novelist and Sinn Féin activist....

  • Flora Drummond
    Flora Drummond
    Flora McKinnon Drummond , , was a British suffragette...

  • Norah Elam
    Norah Elam
    Norah Elam also known as Norah Dacre Fox, was a radical feminist, militant suffragette, anti-vivisectionist and fascist in the United Kingdom. Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1878 to John and Charlotte Doherty, she emigrated to England with her family and by 1891 was living in London...

  • Millicent Fawcett
    Millicent Fawcett
    Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, GBE was an English suffragist and an early feminist....

  • Elizabeth Fry
    Elizabeth Fry
    Elizabeth Fry , née Gurney, was an English prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Quaker, a Christian philanthropist...

  • Edith Margaret Garrud
    Edith Margaret Garrud
    Edith Margaret Garrud was among the first female professional martial arts instructors in the Western world. She is remembered for having trained the Bodyguard unit of the Women's Social and Political Union in jujutsu self defence techniques.- Early life :She was born Edith Margaret Williams in...

  • Nellie Hall
    Nellie Hall
    Nellie Hall was a British suffragette and god-daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst after whom she was named....

  • Cicely Hamilton
    Cicely Hamilton
    Cicely Mary Hamilton , born Hammill, was an English actress, writer, journalist, suffragist, lesbian and feminist. She is now best known for the play Diana of Dobson's, with a setting in an Edwardian department store....

  • Jane Ellen Harrison
    Jane Ellen Harrison
    Jane Ellen Harrison 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 archaeological discoveries to the interpretation of Greek religion in ways that have...

  • Evelina Haverfield
    Evelina Haverfield
    Evelina Haverfield was a British suffragette and aid worker. In the early part of the 20th century, she was involved in Emmeline Pankhurst's militant women's suffrage organisation the Women's Social and Political Union...

  • Heather Helsden-Gee
  • Emily Hobhouse
    Emily Hobhouse
    Emily Hobhouse was a British welfare campaigner, who is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the poor conditions inside the British concentration camps in South Africa built for Boer women and children during the Second Boer War.-Early...

  • Winifred Holtby
    Winifred Holtby
    Winifred Holtby was an English novelist and journalist, best known for her novel South Riding.-Life and writings:...

  • Clemence Housman
    Clemence Housman
    Clemence Housman was an author, illustrator and activist in the womens’ suffrage movement. She was the sister of A. E. Housman and Laurence Housman. She was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Her novels included The Were-Wolf, Unknown Sea and The Life Of Sir Aglovale De Galis...

  • Laurence Housman
    Laurence Housman
    Laurence Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator.-Early life:Laurence Housman was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, one of seven children who included the poet A. E. Housman and writer Clemence Housman. In 1871 his mother died, and his father remarried, to a cousin...

  • Elizabeth How-Martyn
  • Elsie Inglis
    Elsie Inglis
    Elsie Inglis was an innovative Scottish doctor and suffragist.-Education:She was born in the hill station town of Naini Tal, India, to John Forbes David Inglis who worked in the Indian civil service as Chief Commissioner of Oudh...

  • Jacobs Eleanor
  • Sophia Jex-Blake
    Sophia Jex-Blake
    Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake 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 women and was involved in founding two medical schools for women, in London and in...

  • Ellen Isabel Jones
    Ellen Isabel Jones
    Ellen Isabel Jones was an English Suffragette and close associate of the Pankhursts....

  • Annie Kenney
    Annie Kenney
    Annie Kenney was an English working class suffragette who became a leading figure in the Women's Social and Political Union...

  • Grace Kimmins
    Grace Kimmins
    Dame Grace Kimmins, DBE was described in Punch as ... in her quiet practical way is probably as good a friend as London ever had, a description for the driving force behind the Guild of Play and the Guild of the Poor Brave Things.Born Grace Mary Thyrza Hannam, she became a Wesleyan deaconess and...

  • Anne Knight
    Anne Knight
    Anne Knight was a social reformer noted as a pioneer of feminism.-Family background:Anne Knight was the daughter of William Knight , a Chelmsford grocer and his wife Priscilla Allen...

  • Annie Knight
    Annie Knight
    Annie Knight was, at age 111, the United Kingdom's oldest person following the death of fellow 111-year-old Emmeline Brice on 26 July 2006....

  • Jennie Lee
  • Lilian Lenton
    Lilian Lenton
    Lilian Ida Lenton was an English dancer, suffragist, arsonist, and winner of a French Red Cross medal for her service as an Orderly in World War I.-Early years:...

  • Lady Constance Lytton
    Constance Lytton
    Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton was an influential British suffragette activist, writer, speaker and campaigner for prison reform, votes for women, and birth control.Although she was raised as member of the privileged, ruling class elite within British Society, she rejected this...

  • Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda
    Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda
    Margaret Haig Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda was a Welsh peeress and active suffragette.In 1908 she joined the Women's Social and Political Union , and became secretary of the WSPU's Newport branch...

  • Sarah Mair
    Sarah Mair
    Dame Sarah Elizabeth Siddons Mair, DBE was a Scottish campaigner for women's education and women's suffrage, active in the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women and the Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society, which she founded before she was 20.-Life:Born into a well-to-do family...

  • Dora Marsden
    Dora Marsden
    Dora Marsden was an English feminist editor of avant-garde literary journals, and an author of philosophical writings.-Early life:...

  • Charlotte Marsh
  • Selina Martin
    Selina Martin
    Selina Martin was involved in the suffragette movement in the early 20th century. She was arrested several times.- Early life :Selina Martin was born 21 November 1882, in Ulverston, England. She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Martin, and was the seventh of eleven living children...

  • Harriet Martineau
    Harriet Martineau
    Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist....

  • Eleanor Marx
    Eleanor Marx
    Jenny Julia Eleanor "Tussy" Marx , also known as Eleanor Marx Aveling, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. She was herself a socialist activist, who sometimes worked as a literary translator...

  • Alice Meynell
    Alice Meynell
    Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.-Biography:...

  • John Stuart Mill
    John Stuart Mill
    John Stuart Mill was a British philosopher, economist and civil servant. An influential contributor to social theory, political theory, and political economy, his conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. He was a proponent of...

     and Harriet Taylor Mill
    Harriet Taylor Mill
    Harriet Taylor Mill was a philosopher and women's rights advocate. Her second husband was John Stuart Mill, one of the pre-eminent thinkers of the 19th century...

  • Hannah Mitchell
    Hannah Mitchell
    Hannah Mitchell was an English suffragette and socialist. Born into a poor farming family in Derbyshire, Mitchell left home at a young age to work as a seamstress in Bolton, were she became involved in the socialist movement. She worked for many years in organisations related to socialism, women's...

  • Dora Montefiore
    Dora Montefiore
    Dorothy Frances Montefiore was an English-Australian women's suffragist and socialist. She also wrote poetry, and her autobiography.-Early life:...

  • Flora Murray
    Flora Murray
    Dr. Flora Murray, M.D. was a medical pioneer and a member of the Women's Social and Political Union suffragettes.Murray trained at the London School of Medicine for Women and finished her course at Durham. She then worked in Scotland before returning to London in 1905...

  • Mary Neal
    Mary Neal
    Mary Neal CBE , born Clara Sophia Neal, was an English social worker and collector of English folk dances....

  • Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
    Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
    Alison Roberta Noble Neilans was an English suffragette. She was imprisoned three times for her activities; twice, for one month each occurrence, in 1908 and once, for three months, in 1909. Her third prison sentence was for pouring liquid into ballot boxes at a local by-election...

  • Florence Nightingale
    Florence Nightingale
    Florence Nightingale OM, RRC was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night...

  • Ada Nield Chew
    Ada Nield Chew
    Ada Nield Chew was a British suffragette.Ada Nield was born on a farm near Butt Lane in North Staffordshire on 28 January 1870, daughter of Willam and Jane Nield. She left school at the age of eleven to help her mother take care of house and family...

  • Christabel Pankhurst
    Christabel Pankhurst
    Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, DBE , was a suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union , she directed its militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913. In 1914 she became a fervent supporter of the war against Germany...

  • Emmeline Pankhurst
    Emmeline Pankhurst
    Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement which helped women win the right to vote...

  • Sylvia Pankhurst
    Sylvia Pankhurst
    Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst 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.-Early life:...

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

  • Edith Pechey
    Edith Pechey
    Edith Pechey-Phipson was one of the first women doctors in the United Kingdom and a campaigner for women's rights. She spent more than 20 years in India as a senior doctor at a women's hospital and was involved in a range of social causes....

  • Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
    Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
    Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence was a Britishwomen's rights activist.Her father was a businessman...

  • Sona Patterson-Jasmin
  • Eleanor Rathbone
    Eleanor Rathbone
    Eleanor Florence Rathbone was an independent British Member of Parliament and long-term campaigner for women's rights. She was a member of the noted Rathbone family of Liverpool.-Life:...

  • Mary Reid
    Mary Reid
    Mary Reid aka Mary Reid MacArthur was a Scottish suffragette and trades unionist. She was born in Glasgow and became politicised when she joined the shop assistant's union whilst working in her father's drapers shop...

  • Mary Richardson
    Mary Richardson
    Mary Raleigh Richardson was a Canadian suffragette active in the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom and later the head of the women's section of British Union of Fascists led by Sir Oswald Mosley....

  • Edith Rigby
    Edith Rigby
    Edith Rigby was an English suffragette. She was a contemporary of Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst.-Biography:Born Edith Rayner on St Luke's Day in 1872 in Preston, Lancashire, she was one of seven children of Dr Alexander Clement Rayner and was educated at Penrhos College in North Wales. She...

  • Elizabeth Robins
    Elizabeth Robins
    Elizabeth Robins was an actress, playwright, novelist, and suffragette.- Early life :Elizabeth Robins, the first child of Charles Robins and Hannah Crow, and was born in Louisville, Kentucky. After financial difficulties, her father left for Colorado, leaving the children in the care of Hannah...

  • Rona Robinson
    Rona Robinson
    Rona Robinson was a British suffragette and in 1905 the first woman in the United Kingdom to gain a first-class degree in chemistry. It was awarded to her by Owen's College, Victoria University of Manchester....

  • Esther Roper
    Esther Roper
    Esther Roper was an English suffragist who was one of the first women to graduate and gain her BA at Owens College in Manchester.Esther was the daughter of a Manchester factory worker who later became a missionary in Africa....

  • Agnes Royden
    Agnes Royden
    [Agnes] Maude Royden, CH was a preacher and suffragist.Always known as Maude Royden, she was born at Mossley Hill, Liverpool, the daughter of Sir Thomas Bland Royden, 1st Baronet, of Frankby Hall, Birkenhead...

  • Ethel Smyth
    Ethel Smyth
    Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE was an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.- Early career :...

  • Ethel Snowden
    Ethel Snowden
    Ethel Snowden, Viscountess Snowden, born Ethel Annakin , was a British socialist and feminist politician. From a middle-class background, she became a Christian Socialist through a radical preacher and initially promoted temperance and teetotalism in the slums of Liverpool...

  • Flora Stevenson
    Flora Stevenson
    Flora Clift Stevenson was a Scottish social reformer with a special interest in education for poor or neglected children, and in education for girls. She was one of the first women in the United Kingdom to be elected to a school board...

  • Louisa Stevenson
    Louisa Stevenson
    Louisa Stevenson was a Scottish campaigner for women's university education, women's suffrage and effective, well-organised nursing.-Family:...

  • Helena Swanwick
    Helena Swanwick
    Helena Lucy Maria Swanwick, née Sickert CH was a British feminist and pacifist.-Life:Helena Sickert was the only daughter of the painter Oswald Sickert and the Englishwoman Eleanor Louisa Henry, an illegitimate daughter of astronomer...

  • Elizabeth Thompson
    Elizabeth Thompson
    Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, Lady Butler was a British painter, one of the few female painters to achieve fame for history paintings, especially military battle scenes, at the end of that tradition...

  • Marion Wallace Dunlop
    Marion Wallace Dunlop
    Marion Wallace Dunlop was the first British suffragette to go on hunger strike, on 5 July 1909, after being arrested in July 1909 for militancy....

  • Harriet Shaw Weaver
    Harriet Shaw Weaver
    Harriet Shaw Weaver was a political activist and a magazine editor. She also became the patron of James Joyce....

  • Beatrice Webb
    Beatrice Webb
    Martha Beatrice Webb, Lady Passfield was an English sociologist, economist, socialist and social reformer. Although her husband became Baron Passfield in 1929, she refused to be known as Lady Passfield...

  • Rebecca West
    Rebecca West
    Cicely Isabel Fairfield , known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public...

  • Olive Wharry
    Olive Wharry
    Olive Wharry was an English artist, arsonist and suffragist who in 1913 was imprisoned with Lilian Lenton for burning down the tea pavilion at Kew Gardens.-Early life:...

  • Anna Doyle Wheeler
    Anna Doyle Wheeler
    Anna Doyle Wheeler was a writer and advocate of political rights for women and the benefits of contraception. She married Francis Massey Wheeler when she was aged 15 and they separated 12 years later...

  • Ellen Wilkinson
    Ellen Wilkinson
    Ellen Cicely Wilkinson was the Labour Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough and later for Jarrow on Tyneside. She was one of the first women in Britain to be elected as a Member of Parliament .- History :...

  • Alice Zimmern
    Alice Zimmern
    Alice Zimmern was an English writer, translator and suffragist.-Background and education:Zimmern was born in Nottingham, the youngest of the three daughters of the lace merchant Hermann Theodore Zimmern, a German Jewish immigrant, and his wife Antonia Marie Therese Regina, née Leo...


Canadian

  • Nellie McClung
    Nellie McClung
    Nellie McClung, born Nellie Letitia Mooney , 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...

     and the rest of the Famous Five
  • Emily Stowe
    Emily Stowe
    Dr. Emily Howard Stowe 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...


French

  • Hubertine Auclert
    Hubertine Auclert
    Hubertine Auclert 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 she was thirteen years old and her mother sent her to live and study in a Roman...

  • Maria Deraismes
    Maria Deraismes
    Maria Deraismes was a French author and major pioneering force for women's rights.- Biography :Born in Paris, Maria Deraismes grew up in Pontoise in the city's northwest outskirts...

  • Jeanne Deroin
    Jeanne Deroin
    Jeanne Deroin 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...

  • Marguerite Durand
    Marguerite Durand
    Marguerite Durand was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette.-Biography:Born into a middle-class family, Marguerite Durand was sent to study at a Roman Catholic convent...

  • Olympe de Gouges
    Olympe de Gouges
    Olympe de Gouges , born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience....

  • Madeleine Pelletier
    Madeleine Pelletier
    Madeleine Pelletier was a French physician, psychiatrist, first-wave feminist, and socialist activist.Pelletier originally trained as an anthropologist studying the relationship between skull size and intelligence after Paul Broca with Charles Letourneau and Léonce Manouvrier...

  • Pauline Roland
    Pauline Roland
    Pauline Roland was a French feminist and socialist.Upon her mother's insistence, Roland received a good education and was introduced to the ideas of Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, the founder of French socialism, by one of her teachers. She became an enthusiastic supporter of his...

  • Séverine
    Severine
    Severine or Séverine can refer to:* the nom de plume of the French journalist Caroline Rémy de Guebhard* a pseudonym of the Hungarian model Eve Angel...

  • Flora Tristan
    Flora Tristan
    Flora Tristan was a socialist writer and activist. She was also one of the founders of modern feminism...


German

  • Hedwig Dohm
    Hedwig Dohm
    Marianne Adelaide Hedwig Dohm born Schlesinger, later Schleh was a German feminist, and author. She was one of the first feminist thinkers to see gender roles as a result of socialization and not biological determinism.-Family:She was born in Berlin to Jewish parents, as a daughter of Wilhelmine...

  • Gretchen Neidles
  • Isliket Hardee
  • Clara Zetkin
    Clara Zetkin
    Clara Zetkin was a German Marxist theorist, activist, and fighter for women's rights. In 1910, she organized the first International Women's Day....



Irish

  • Louie Bennett
    Louie Bennett
    Louie Bennett 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 executive committee of the Labour Party. She was also the founder...

  • Norah Elam
    Norah Elam
    Norah Elam also known as Norah Dacre Fox, was a radical feminist, militant suffragette, anti-vivisectionist and fascist in the United Kingdom. Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1878 to John and Charlotte Doherty, she emigrated to England with her family and by 1891 was living in London...

     aka Norah Dacre Fox
  • Eva Gore-Booth
    Eva Gore-Booth
    Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth was an Irish poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist...

  • Kathleen Lynn
    Kathleen Lynn
    Kathleen Florence Lynn was an Irish Sinn Féin politician, activist and medical doctor. She was born to a Dublin Church of Ireland family and educated in England and Germany before graduating as a doctor in 1899 from the Royal University of Ireland.An active suffragette, labour activist and...

  • Constance Markievicz
  • Helena Moloney
    Helena Moloney
    Helena Moloney was a prominent Irish republican, feminist and labor activist. She fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and later became the second woman president of the Irish Trade Union Congress....

  • Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington
    Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington
    Johanna Mary Sheehy-Skeffington, was a suffragette and Irish nationalist. Along with her husband and Margaret Cousins and James Cousins she founded the Irish Women's Franchise League in 1908 with the aim of obtaining women's voting rights...

  • Anna Maria Haslam
  • Sopia Newhman
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