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| 680188282 | Olympe de Gouges | She was a women's rights advocate in France who wrote "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen." Her execution during the Reign of Terror seems to indicate that feminist ideas were too radical even for the leaders of the French Revolution. | |
| 680188283 | Mary Wollstonecraft | She was a British women's rights advocate who wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." | |
| 680188284 | Mrs. John Stanford | She opposed feminist ideas and proposals while arguing in favor of separate spheres for the influence of women and men in modern society. She explained her ideas in her tract "Women in Her Social and Domestic Character." | |
| 680188285 | Betty Harris | She was a worker during the early industrial revolution in Great Britain who drew carts in underground shafts of coal mines. The difficulties of her work helped to inspire reforms in the British mining industry. | |
| 680188286 | Adela Zamudio | Bolivian poet who expressed her frustration over the lack of women's suffrage |
