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Hedda Dyson

Throughout her editorship, the Woman’s Weekly increased its circulation rapidly, from 22,447 in 1934 to 32,202 by the end of the decade, reaching 67,663 by 1948.

Jessie Mackay

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

Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson

Caroline Atkinson was a keen student of natural history and an accomplished botanical illustrator. She was also a populariser of science and published in the “Sydney Morning Herald” and the “Horticultural Magazine”. Over 800 of Atkinson’s specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.

Lilian Davidson

Irish landscape and portrait artist, art teacher, and writer

Mary Davys

Irish novelist, playwright, and poet

Lilli Lehmann

Distinguished German soprano

Juliana Berners

Founder of Sopewell Nunnery

Mary Virginia Terhune

American novelist and journalist

Hester Stanhope

English traveler and writer

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.