Marie Bashkirtseff
Russian artist and writer
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Mariana Van Rensselaer
American author, elected as honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, and in 1910 received the degree of Litt. D. from Columbia University.
Elsie de Wolfe
American actress and decorator
Janet Scudder
American sculptor
Winifred Holt
American sculptor and philanthropist
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe
American philanthropist
Evelyn B Longman
American sculptor
Fanny Corbaux
English artist, one of the first to assert the right of women to obtain admission as students to the Royal Academy.
Anne Crawford Acheson
Irish sculptor who was the first woman to be elected a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (1938), was an Associate of the Royal College of Art, and was made CBE in 1919 in recognition of her war work at the Surgical Requisites Association in London, where she developed surgical aids.
Aileen Mary Stace
Aileen Stace kept the craft of spinning popular by arranging demonstrations and exhibitions, both in her own spinning room and at public venues; the last exhibition she organised and minded took place in 1972.