Kathleen Dolan
Irish radio announcer
Irish radio announcer
Columnist, newspaper editor and promoter of the Irish language
American author, best known by her Woman’s Letter from Washington, contributed for many years to the New York Independent.
Irish journalist, filmmaker and political activist
Throughout her editorship, the Woman’s Weekly increased its circulation rapidly, from 22,447 in 1934 to 32,202 by the end of the decade, reaching 67,663 by 1948.
Jessie Mackay’s crusading spirit informed her poetry, and her poetry is a record of all the causes she held dear.
In 1901 she established a women’s collective clothing factory and was appointed the chair of its board. She continued her work for electoral reform and moved the resolution that brought the South Australian National Council of Women into existence, although she found the organisation too cautious and resigned from the executive in 1906.
Maggie Daly was a fashion model and organiser of fashion shows; she was also a journalist and gossip columnist and appeared regularly on television.
Sheila Daly wrote syndicated newspaper columns and worked in advertising.
New Zealand’s most widely read popular novelist of the 1930s and 1940s