Lilian Davidson
Irish landscape and portrait artist, art teacher, and writer
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Mary Davys
Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
Hester Stanhope
English traveler and writer
Lilli Lehmann
Distinguished German soprano
Juliana Berners
Founder of Sopewell Nunnery
Mary Virginia Terhune
American novelist and journalist
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.
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.