Violet Oakley
American illustrator and designer
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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.
Christina Rossetti
Poetess of the Spiritual Life
Adah Isaacs Menken
Actress Adah Isaacs Menken was noted as a woman of extraordinary beauty, culture, and brilliancy. She was famous for her marriages and divorces, and a volume of poetry by her was published as Infelicia (1868).
Grace Cossington Smith
She was a pioneer of modernist painting in Australia and her work is greatly sought after.
Marion Louisa Holmes
A leading charity worker and artist in Western Australia from the 1890s to the 1910s
Beverly Knight
Elected to the board of the Essendon Football Club in 1993, she was the first woman to hold that position at an Australian Football League (AFL) club. Knight is also well know for the leading role she has taken in bringing the work of Aboriginal artists to public notice. She is a former president of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association and helped develop a code of conduct to protect Aboriginal artists from exploitative dealers.
Marie Tussaud
Founder of the famous “Madame Tussaud’s Exhibition” of wax figures in London.
Anne Killigrew
English artist and poetess