Elsie de Wolfe
American actress and decorator
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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.
Ellen Elizabeth Ferner
As a member of the Auckland Community Welfare Council when it formed in mid 1924, Ferner was involved in providing important support for the passage of the Child Welfare Act in 1925. This experience, and her wider work on children’s issues, culminated in her appointment as one of the first three associate members of the Children’s Court in 1926.
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.