Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová
Czech writer renowned for her famous cookery book.
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Agnes Catherine Maitland
Writer and principal of Somerville College, Oxford in the 1800s
Ann O’Donnell
New Zealand farmer, grocer, hotel proprietor
Hilary Stevenson
Irish food scientist
Ramona Bennett
American Puyallup leader and advocate whose indomitable spirit ignited the 1960s and 1970s Fish Wars in the US Pacific Northwest.
Amy Curtis
Superintendent of the Women’s Royal Naval Service in the Portsmouth command (1939–44), worked in the resettlement advice service of the British ministry of labour and national service (1945–8), and was chief administrative officer of the Women’s Land Army in its last years (1948–50).
Annie Cleland Millar
New Zealand baker and businesswoman
Katrine Mackay
lthough Katrine had no formal schooling after the age of 10, at 17 she was reckoned to be ‘a prodigy in literature’, as by then she had published serially in the Australian Journal a novel, ‘Eve’s Sacrifice’, and had numerous novelettes and short stories printed in the Australasian, Hamilton Spectator and Sydney Bulletin.
Mildred Trent
Described as ‘one of the best known, most public-spirited, and most useful women in Canterbury’.
Bell McElligott
Tough, spirited and independent, Bell McElligott responded to the needs of her family and friends throughout her life and helped others in practical ways. She fought for her beliefs, and took pride in the awards she received for her community and political activities.