Gertrude Campbell
Irish writer, journalist, and critic
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Fanny Currey
Irish artist and horticulturalist
Marie Bashkirtseff
Russian artist and writer
Fanny Corbaux
English artist, one of the first to assert the right of women to obtain admission as students to the Royal Academy.
Flora MacKenzie
Between 1962 and 1976 Flora MacKenzie appeared in court six times on brothel-keeping charges, and was twice imprisoned for periods of six months.
Cecilia Beaux
American painter, distinguished for her portraits of women and children
Violet Oakley
American illustrator and designer
Christina Rossetti
Poetess of the Spiritual Life
Adah Isaacs Menken
Actress Adah Isaacs Menken was noted as a woman of extraordinary beauty, culture, and brilliancy. She was famous for her marriages and divorces, and a volume of poetry by her was published as Infelicia (1868).
Grace Cossington Smith
She was a pioneer of modernist painting in Australia and her work is greatly sought after.