Marguerite Dale
Marguerite Ludovia Dale was a playwright and feminist and was active in lobbying for the Women’s Legal Status Act of 1918.
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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.
Maureen Daly
Irish journalist and novelist
Diane Bell
Bell is the author or editor of ten books, including several significant monographs on Australian Aboriginal culture and numerous articles and book chapters dealing with religion, land rights, law reform, art, history and social change.
Thistle Yolette Harris
Through her teaching and writing, she did a great deal to popularize knowledge about Australian flora, to encourage domestic gardeners to include native plants in their gardens and to persuade a wider audience of the need for conservation measures. She published twelve books about Australian plants and teaching nature studies between 1938 and 1980, and contributed widely to scientific journals and reference books including The Australian Naturalist, Australian Wild Life, Australian Encyclopaedia and Science Wonders of Australia. She was also editor, at various times, of New Horizons in Education, Australian Wildlife and Wildlife Research News.