Jean Carman
Jean Carman experimented with dyemaking from eucalypts and published Dyemaking with Eucalypts in 1978. She tested 240 species from all over Australia, documenting the colours produced in wool with different treatments.
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Moyra Barry
Irish artist
Mona Grey
Irish nurse and philanthropist who promoted nursing education
Margaret Boyle
First countess of Orrery in 1600s Ireland
Feziwe Bookholane
South African nurse and activist
Gabriele Neuhäuser
Gabriele Neuhäuser collected mammals for the American Museum of Natural History in northern Australia from the late 1930s.
Elizabeth Burchill
Elizabeth Burchill worked as a nurse in many diverse locations, including England, Canada, the USA, New Guinea and Thursday Island. She has written several books about her nursing experience, including Thursday Island Nurse and The Paths I’ve Trod.
Joan Burke
Irish nurse, politician and farmer
Bridget Hedderman
Irish district nurse
Julia Walworth Long
Ohio temperance activist who helped organize two Presbyterian churches in Cleveland and devoted much time to social service