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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.

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.