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This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) – celebrated social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing; Emily Rosaline Orme (1835–1915) – member of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage; Elizabeth Margaret Pace (1866–1957) – Scottish doctor, suffragist and advocate for women's health and women's rights
Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4]
Although the Isle of Man (a British Crown dependency) had enfranchised women who owned property to vote in parliamentary elections in 1881, New Zealand was the first self-governing country to grant all women the right to vote in 1893, when women over the age of 21 were permitted to vote in all parliamentary elections. [8]
At some time she adopted the name Florence Nightingale Harrison. Under that name in 1896, she married Joseph Nicholas Bell , general secretary of the National Amalgamated Union of Labour . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She became active in the Independent Labour Party (ILP), and was the first woman to serve on its National Administrative Council (NAC).
Florence Marion Howe Hall (August 25, 1845 – April 10, 1922) [1] was an American writer, critic, and lecturer about women's suffrage in the United States. [2] Along with her two sisters, Laura Elizabeth Richards and Maude Howe Elliott , Hall received the first Pulitzer Prize for a biography, Julia Ward Howe.
Escoda was born in Dingras, Ilocos Norte as Josefa Llanes y Madamba. She was the eldest of the seven children of Mercedes Madamba and Gabriel Llanes. Josefa's siblings were Florencio, Luisa, Elvira, Rosario, Purita, and Eufrocina. [2]