Ongoing Campaigns
A Is for Aphra
Aphra Behn - 1640-1689 - The first professional woman writer in English, a playwright, poet and a spy for Charles II
Statue Site: Canterbury, Kent
Contact: Charlotte Cornell, hello@aisforaphra.org
Mary on the Toon
Mary Astell - 1666 to 1731 - The first English feminist
Statue Site: Newcastle (TBC)
Contact: Claudine Van Hensbergen, claudine.vanhensbergen@northumbria.ac.uk
Mary Clarke
Mary Clarke 1861 - 1910 - The first suffragette to die for the cause.
Statue Site: Brighton
Contact: Jean Calder, 07793608307, jeancalder.mcsa@gmail.com
Image copyright Andrew Hasson
The Matchgirls Memorial
The Matchgirls Strike - July 1888
Statue Site: East End of London
Contact: Sam Johnson - Chair, 07817205985, matchgirls1888statue@gmail.com
Image courtesy of TUC Library Collections at London Metropolitan University
Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst - 1882 to 1960. Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Committee
Statue Site: Clerkenwell Green, London
Contact: Megan Dobney, megan@gn.apc.org
Factory Girls
Honouring the shirt Factory Girls, working in the most challenging of times.
Statue Site: Harbour Square - re-development project, Derry
Contact: Clare Moore and Yvonne Norris, friendsofthefactories@aol.com
Emily Williamson
Founder of the RSPB.
Statue Site: Didsbury, Manchester
Contact: andrew4didsbury@gmail.com
Elsie Inglis
Creator of The Scottish Women's Hospitals which in World War One provided care for thousands of soldiers.
Statue Site: The Royal Mile, Edinburgh
Contact: Alison Collington, collingtona@outlook.com
Lady Rhondda
Welsh suffragette, business leader, editor, feminist activist and the first woman to try to take a seat in the House of Lords.
Statue Site: Newport, Gwent
Contact: Helen Molyneux, helen@monumentalwelshwomen.com
Photo of maquette by Tamsin Stirling
Completed Campaigns
Mary Anning Rocks
Mary Anning - 1799 - 1847 - Palaeontological pioneer
Statue Site: Lyme Regis, Dorset
Contact: Anya Pearson, hello@maryanningrocks.co.uk
Virginia Woolf
Iconoclastic novelist
Statue Site: Richmond-on-Thames
Contact: info@aurorametro.com
Elizabeth Elmy
Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy - 1833-1918. The brains of the suffragist movement.
Statue Site: Bridge Street, Congleton
Contact: Sue Munro, elizabethwelmy@gmail.com
Henrietta Lacks
Henriette Lacks - 1920-1951. The HeLa cells are an immortal cell line used in scientific research.
Statue Site: BRoyal Fort Gardens, University of Bristol
Contact: epress-office@bristol.ac.uk
Betty Campbell
Betty Campbell - 1934 - 2017. Teacher & activist.
Statue Site: Cardiff, Wales
Contact: Helen Molyneux, helen@monumentalwelshwomen.com
Elaine Morgan
Elaine Morgan - 2910 - 2013. Writer & evolutionary theorist.
Statue Site: Mountain Ash, Wales
Contact: Helen Molyneux, helen@monumentalwelshwomen.com
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst - 1858 – 1928
Statue Site: St Peter’s Square, Manchester
Contact: Andrew Simcock, 07710 844352, andrew4didsbury@gmail.com
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