Mary Mapes Dodge
American editor, author and poet
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Claudia Jones
Journalist born in Trinidad who dedicated her life to fighting racism inequality and injustice.
Bathia Stuart
She was one of the first New Zealand women to enter the male-dominated field of film-making.
Kathleen Dolan
Irish radio announcer
Sorcha Ní Ghuairim
Columnist, newspaper editor and promoter of the Irish language
Mary C Ames
American author, best known by her Woman’s Letter from Washington, contributed for many years to the New York Independent.
Bernie Dwyer
Irish journalist, filmmaker and political activist
Hedda Dyson
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
Jessie Mackay’s crusading spirit informed her poetry, and her poetry is a record of all the causes she held dear.
Catherine Helen Spence
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.