Audrey Oldfield
A committed feminist, author of what remains the definitive work on the history of Australian women’s fight for the vote, Women Suffrage in Australia: a Gift or Struggle (1992)
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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.
Teresa Deevy
Irish playwright
Charlotte Despard
Irish suffragist, nationalist, socialist, and writer
Signe Toksvig
Danish novelist, biographer, and diarist
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
American poet and philanthropist
Maria Parloa
American domestic economist and author. She was an authority on the proper preparation of food and on household management upon which subjects she lectured and wrote extensively.
Mary C Ames
American author, best known by her Woman’s Letter from Washington, contributed for many years to the New York Independent.
Mary Hunter Austin
American author and dramatist
Sara Coleridge
English writer