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.
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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.
Ruth Park
Her debut novel The Harp of the South was inspired by the poverty and crime of the Surry Hills area in which they lived. The novel won the Sydney Morning Herald’s literary competition in 1946 and went on to be published in 1948.
Sydney residents were shocked at the novel’s descriptions of slum-life including ‘crime, domestic violence, prostitution and backyard abortions’ (Australian, 2010). In response, the NSW government initially denied the existence of slums in Sydney however they eventually conceded by demolishing many of the dilapidated Victorian terraces around Sydney and relocating residents into housing commission units. She went on to write over fifty books, including nine novels.
Melosina Lenox-Conyngham
Irish traveller and writer
Catherine Hester Ralfe
Writer whose reminiscences vividly illustrate the lives of colonial women
Margaret Bullock
Energetic and talented, Margaret Bullock was a pioneer in several respects. As a journalist and parliamentary correspondent she gained entrance into a predominantly male profession. She also played a pivotal role in the nineteenth century women’s movement at both local and national levels.
Amy Kane
In 1951 she was appointed an OBE for services to women’s organisations. She continued to serve them faithfully for another 20 years and in 1963 was the first New Zealand woman to complete 100,000 flying miles.
Rhoda Coghill
Irish pianist, composer, and poet
Isabella Bird
English travelor and author
Jeanne Marie Guyon
French religious writer, remembered for the persecutions she experienced because of her views.