Lin Zongsu was a Chinese suffragist and writer who founded the first women’s suffrage organisation in China.
Lin Zongsu
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Category: Vote 100
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act, GWL is developing an animated web resource highlighting the forgotten heroines who have campaigned for women across the world to have the right to vote.
Lin Zongsu
Concepción Felix de Calderón
Concepción Felix de Calderon was born in the Philippines in 1884 and founded the Feminist Association of the Philippines in 1905.
Qiu Jin
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Sojourner Truth
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Catherine Hogg-Blair
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Doria Shafik
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Frances McPhun
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Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi
Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi is a women’s rights activist and an associate professor of women’s history at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia.
Annot Wilkie
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Alice Crompton
Alice Crompton was a Suffragette, originally from Manchester, who campaigned all over Scotland, from Fife to Stornoway.