Adelaide Neilson
English actress
English actress
Irish theatre director and producer, actor and singer
Irish-American actress of the late 1800s
English actress and author
American novelist and dramatist. She wrote a biography of Mercy Otis Warren (1896), some verse, and a book on English travels, but is better known for her artistic analysis of New England characters and consciences, in her short stories and novels.
Margaret Escott is best remembered as the author of the novel Show down.
Star of the the Buckingham Family entertainers troupe
For most of the 1950s Kathleen O’Brien was the only woman directing films in New Zealand.
Catherine Duncan was an actor, playwright, film-maker and author who became the first woman credited as director in an Australian film since the McDonagh sisters in the 1930s.
Hewett’s frank and often personal depiction of female sexuality and strength was at times controversial, but cemented her reputation as a leading feminist, politically aware Australian writer who mastered many genres.