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Lydia Shackleton

Irish botanical artist, teacher, and poet

Georgia Douglas Johnson was one of the most well-known Black female writers and playwrights of her time. Known for writing most about love and womanhood, Douglas Johnson’s published works touched many and were featured in the most widely-read Black publications of the twentieth century.

Jane Fletcher

Jane Fletcher published a number of books on nature and nature study and broadcast on 7ZL Hobart and 3LO Melbourne. In 1934 she became the first woman to lecture to the Royal Society of Tasmania. She was an outstanding bird observer with a particular interest in crakes and rails.

Mary C Ames

American author, best known by her Woman’s Letter from Washington, contributed for many years to the New York Independent.

Sara Teasdale

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

American poet and philanthropist

Jessie Mackay

Jessie Mackay’s crusading spirit informed her poetry, and her poetry is a record of all the causes she held dear.

Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie

Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a prominent activist in the fields of Māori welfare and health from the 1970s to the 1990s. She was a long-serving member and president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and an acclaimed researcher in the area of Māori women’s health. She also served on the Human Rights Commission and in a wide variety of other public positions. An accomplished actor, singer and orator, she also composed waiata and poetry.

Mary Davys

Irish novelist, playwright, and poet

Rhoda Coghill

Irish pianist, composer, and poet