Kylie Tennant
One of Australia’s most prominent writers in the mid-20th century, known especially for her socialist realist portrayals of the hardships of the working class and unemployed
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Bobbi Sykes
Forced out of school early by racism, she became a nurse, before working as a journalist. She helped to found the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern, and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, among many other entities. In the early 1970s, as a prominent activist for Aboriginal rights, Sykes was invited to speak on racism, rights and colonialism in countries including the UK, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
Gerda Taro
Before Gerda Taro became the first woman photojournalist to die while covering a war on the front lines, she worked with her lover Endre Friedmann. Together they collaborated on work attributed to “Robert Capa,” an American persona intended to protect European Jewish artists from increasing political tensions on the continent in the 1930s
Máire MacNeill
20th century Irish folklorist
Honor Tracy
20th century British journalist, author and travel writer
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
1800s and 1900s Irish novelist, poet, and journalist
Lucy Faulkner
Lady Faulkner of Downpatrick, political private secretary and public figure
Kathleen O’Brennan
Irish playwright and journalist
June Levine
20th century Irish feminist, journalist and author
Máirín Ní Mhuiríosa
20th century Irish scholar, poet and journalist