Catherine Berndt
The breadth and extent of the Berndts’ research and publications, both as a team and alone, has made a major contribution to anthropological knowledge in Australia.
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Catherine Helen Spence
In 1901 she established a women’s collective clothing factory and was appointed the chair of its board. She continued her work for electoral reform and moved the resolution that brought the South Australian National Council of Women into existence, although she found the organisation too cautious and resigned from the executive in 1906.
Jean Galbraith
Through her innovative writing for diverse readerships, Jean Galbraith became a leader in promoting native flora.
Marguerite Dale
Marguerite Ludovia Dale was a playwright and feminist and was active in lobbying for the Women’s Legal Status Act of 1918.
Maggie Daly
Maggie Daly was a fashion model and organiser of fashion shows; she was also a journalist and gossip columnist and appeared regularly on television.
Sheila Daly
Sheila Daly wrote syndicated newspaper columns and worked in advertising.
Diane E Barwick
Influential anthropologist, historian and human rights activist Diane Barwick was a pioneer of ethnohistory in Australia.
Ellen Scanlan
New Zealand’s most widely read popular novelist of the 1930s and 1940s
Emily Daly
Irish traveller and writer
Dorothy Wilde
Dorothy Wilde divided her time between London and Paris, where she was, for a time, the toast of salons, celebrated for her wit, intelligence, and physical likeness to her uncle Oscar, as whom she used to dress up.