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Margaret Elizabeth Cousins
Social reformer and women’s activist

Biddy Early
The wise women of the West

The Overend Women
Independent women of the 1900s

Typhoid Mary
Mary Mallon: Typhoid victim

Ettie Steinberg
The Only Irish Victim of the Holocaust

The Female Orphan Scheme to Australia in the 1840s
"Morally pure" girls were selected from Irish workhouses for the scheme

Peg Plunkett
Brothel madam