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.
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Catherine Duncan
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.
Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson
American sculptor
Anna Hyatt Huntington
American sculptor whose consists chiefly of small bronzes of animals, notable examples of which are in the Metropolitan Museum. Her bronze equestrian statue of Joan of Arc adorns Riverside Drive in the City of New York, and her productions have been exhibited in most of the salons of Europe.
Anne Lynch Botta
American author and sculptor
Bessie Potter Vonnoh
American sculptor; in 1937, she completed the Burnett Memorial Fountain in Central Park, her best-known large-scale work
Cecilia Beaux
American painter, distinguished for her portraits of women and children
Violet Oakley
American illustrator and designer
Edith Wharton
Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist
Thyra Avis Mary Acres
New Zealander Thyra Avis produced a comic strip and books featuring two pohutukawa fairies called Hutu and Kawa, which conveyed an understanding of ecology and a strong conservationist ethos.