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.
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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.
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.
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.
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