"She trained to be a teacher, refused to marry, and when she turned thirty, decided to study further at the all-female Newnham College at Cambridge"
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Elizabeth Maria Molteno
Elizabeth Maria Molteno (24 September 1852 – 25 August 1927), was an early South African British activist for civil and women's rights in South Africa.
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