Alice Henry

Born in Melbourne in 1857, Alice Henry built an early career in journalism in Australia, where she wrote about social reform, women's suffrage, and labor issues. Reliable biographical sources describe her as a journalist and women's rights advocate who became one of the notable voices linking feminism with practical political change.

In 1905 she moved to the United States, where she became closely involved with the Women's Trade Union League in Chicago. She edited Life and Labor and wrote books including The Trade Union Woman and Women and the Labor Movement, helping document and shape debates about wages, working conditions, and union organizing.

Henry spent much of her life using both the pen and the platform: reporting, lecturing, organizing, and arguing that women's independence depended on political rights as well as fair work. She died in 1943, remembered as a bridge between Australian and American reform movements.