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1. Emmeline Pankhurst, 1858-1928 Regarded by many as a dangerous subversive, Emmeline Pankhurst was the charismatic leader of the Women's Social and Political Union. Both she and her two daughters, Christabel and Sylvia, fought for the rights of women, engaging in low-level crime to gain coverage for the suffragette cause. Imprisoned 13 times between 1908 and 1914, Emmeline Pankhurst used hunger, thirst and sleep strikes to endanger her health so that she would be released. She died while campaigning in June 1928, less than a month before a bill giving women equal voting rights with men became law.
2. Elizabeth Fry, 1780-1845 On a visit to Newgate prison in 1813, Elizabeth Fry was appalled by the overcrowded and inhumane conditions, where offenders were confined within the same room regardless of offence, age or sex. Declaring that "Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal," Fry's campaigns for changes to the prison system-including the classification of felons, segregation of the sexes, and provision for education-led to the passing of new penal legislation, which remains the foundation of the prison system today.
3. Irena Sendler, 1910-2008 Working secretly against the Nazis in occupied Poland, social worker Irena Sendler succeeded in smuggling thousands of Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto and placing them with non-Jewish families. She laboriously recorded and buried the names of the children in jars, in the hope that they would be dug up at the end of the war and reunited with their families. She was eventually caught by the Nazis, tortured, and sentenced to death. However, she managed to escape and, undeterred by her time in captivity, continued to work tirelessly to help the Jews. It is thought that the lives of around 2,500 children were saved by her efforts during the Holocaust.
4. Aphra Behn, c. 1614-1689 Aphra Behn was a highly successful professional writer at a time when women's voices were rarely recognized in the literary world. Despite suffering accusations of plagiarism, her most important work, Oroonoko (c. 1688), had a substantial impact on the development of the English novel. Virginia Woolf, some 300 years later, would say of her, "All women together should let flowers fall on the tomb of Aphra Behn... for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds."
5. Helen Suzman, 1917-
Fundamentally opposed to apartheid, South African politician Helen Suzman made outspoken attacks upon the oppressive racial policies of the Nationalist Party in the 1950s and 1960s. Often the sole voice opposing racial segregation amid the all-white Parliament, she gradually gained support. When Nelson Mandela came to power, he thanked her for her years of tireless campaigning against the cruelty of the race laws.
6. Rosalind Franklin, 1920-1958 Watson and Crick are the names most famously associated with the discovery of the structure of DNA. However, it was Rosalind Franklin's pioneering work on the X-ray diffraction patterns of DNA crystals that first indicated that DNA takes the form of a double helix, and it was to this contribution that the famous duo's discovery was indebted. Franklin's part in the revelation of DNA's composition went largely unrecognized at the time, and she died before she could be rewarded for her achievements.
7. Harriet Tubman, 1820-1913 Born into a life of slavery in the American South, Harriet Tubman escaped to Pennsylvania at the age of 29. Over the next 10 years, she made 19 expeditions back to the South, secretly escorting over 300 black slaves to freedom through a route known as the Underground Railroad. Despite large rewards being offered for her capture, neither she nor any of her charges were ever caught. After the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, Harriet Tubman remained an outspoken supporter and activist for the rights of black women.
8. Octavia Hill, 1838-1912 In 1864 Octavia Hill bought a number of properties in London with the intention of renting them out at a cheap rate to the poor of the parish. Her scheme was highly successful and led to great housing reforms throughout London which benefitted the less wealthy. Another of Octavia Hill's great achievements was co-founding the National Trust. She set up this organization due to a strong belief that access to the countryside should be made available to all.
9. Mary Seacole, 1805-1881 Born to a Scottish father and Jamaican mother, Mary Seacole trained as a nurse in Jamaica before moving to England. On hearing of the terrible conditions for the soldiers in the Crimean War, she funded her own trip to Turkey where she set up a hospital, and even ventured on to the battlefield to tend to the wounded. Her achievements are widely considered to have been equal to those of Florence Nightingale and she returned a national heroine, having overcome prejudices against her race and sex, but has sadly been much forgotten since.
10. Daw Aung Sun Suu Kyi, 1945- Myanmar (Burma) politician Daw Aung Sun Suu Kyi co-founded the National League for Democracy in 1988, basing her campaign on non-violence. Her party won a landslide victory, yet the military government refused to give up power and put Daw Aung Sun Suu Kyi under house arrest. After much international dissent, she was released in 1995, but her continued resistance of the military regime has seen her spend 13 of the past 18 years in custody. Daw Aung Sun Suu Kyi remains under house arrest today.
This article from YahooNews. Posted by Miriam Kennet July 2008
