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Susanne Day

Irish writer and suffragist

Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a prominent activist in the fields of Māori welfare and health from the 1970s to the 1990s. She was a long-serving member and president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and an acclaimed researcher in the area of Māori women’s health. She also served on the Human Rights Commission and in a wide variety of other public positions. An accomplished actor, singer and orator, she also composed waiata and poetry.

Lilian Davidson

Irish landscape and portrait artist, art teacher, and writer

Mary Davys

Irish novelist, playwright, and poet

Louisa Lane Drew

American actress

Margaret Anglin

American actress, director and producer

Marie Dumesnil

Celebrated French actress

Marguerite Dale

Marguerite Ludovia Dale was a playwright and feminist and was active in lobbying for the Women’s Legal Status Act of 1918.

Amber Mae Cecil

By the age of 18 she was in constant demand as one of Australia’s leading radio stars. During the 1950s, Cecil played the lead in the radio serial Life Can be Beautiful, and had an ongoing role in the serial Doctor Paul. She played one of the Macarthur twins in Blue Hills until 1976 and later starred in several Shakespeare radio plays broadcast by ABC radio. She died in 1998.

Josie McAvin

Irish theatrical stage manager, and set decorator in cinema and theatre