Mildred Anne Butler
Irish animal and genre painter
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Katharine Plunkett
Irish botanical and landscape painter
Katherine Kane
Irish botanist and horticulturist
Matilda Cullen Knowles
Irish botanist
Kathleen King
Irish botanist and bryologist
Olive Pink
It was art that led her to her second passion, anthropology and the welfare of Aboriginal people.
Jean O’Neill
Irish plantswoman and horticulturalist
Jane Franklin
When her husband was sent to Tasmania as Governor in the 1830s and 40s, she travelled widely, improved the wretched conditions that female prisoners endured, encouraged the building of schools for boys and girls, commissioned a temple, and founded a museum.
Jeanne Baret
French explorer and botanist who disguised herself as a man to go on an expedition and became the first known woman to circumnavigate the world
Ellen Hutchins
Irish cryptogamic botanist