The vital work done by over seven million women during World War II.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Women's work in WW2
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Women in WW2
The typeface used on the sides of the monument replicates that used in war-ti...
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Caroline Norton
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell, was an active English social reformer and author. She left her husband in 1836. He sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, then the Prime Minis...
1 memorial
Olive Schreiner
Author, campaigner against war, against racism and for womans' vote. Â Best remembered for her 1883 novel, 'The Story of an African Farm'. Â Born in South Africa. Â Named Olive Emilie Albertina Schrei...
Person, Gender Issues, Literature, Peace, Race Issues, South Africa
1 memorial
Laurence Housman
Radical playwright, writer, illustrator, socialist, pacifist and founding member of the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage. The photo shows Housman in 1914. Brother to A. E. Housman. Studied art an...
1 memorial
Jessie Craigen
Jessie Hannah Craigen was a working-class suffrage speaker. She was also a freelance (or 'paid agent') speaker in the campaigns for Irish Home Rule and the cooperative movement and against vivisect...
1 memorial
Rose Mary Crawshay
Philanthropist, feminist, educationist. Born Rose Mary Yeates in Horton, Buckinghamshire, to William Willson Yeates and his first wife Mary. When she was seven three of her baby sisters died in qui...
1 memorial
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