Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher and advocate of Women’s rights. Wollstonecraft was brought up by an abusive father whom she left at age 17 when her mother died. She set up a school in Newington Green with her sister, who had fled an abusive marriage. She used this experience to write the pamphlet …
Florence Nightingale is known as ‘the founder of modern nursing’ and is famously thought of as ‘The Lady with the Lamp’. She is named after Florence, Italy, her place of birth. Nightingale was active in helping those less fortunate than herself early in her life, helping those who were ill or poor in the village …
Harriet Tubman was a famous ‘conductor’ on the underground railroad leading over 300 of slaves to freedom during the 1850s. Tubman was born a slave in Maryland’s Dorchester County around 1820. She began work at 5/6 as a house servant and seven years later she was forced to work as a field hand. She endured …
Emily Wilding Davison is most famous for her tragic death when running into the path of King George V’s horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby on 4 June 1913. Thousands of suffragettes accompanied the coffin and tens of thousands lined the streets on the day of her funeral. Davison was a militant activist who fought …
Emmeline Pankhurst was a political activist and the leader of the British suffragette movement. She fought for the rights of women and used militant tactics never before associated with women to bring attention to women’s suffrage. Pankhurst fought for the vote for women with the belief that if women were able to vote they would …