Rupi Kaur
Indian-Canadian poet and artist
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Mary Anne Stebbing
British botanist and illustrator
Mary Vaux Walcott
In 2019, Smithsonian Data Science Lab fellow Tiana Curry found that dozens of botanical samples collected by natural historian, botanist, and artist Mary Vaux Walcott were listed under Mary’s husband’s name in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History database.
Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh has been called Scotland’s most famous architect, while his wife, artist Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh, has been relegated to the role of supportive spouse by art historians. Yet even Charles acknowledged that he owed Margaret much of his professional success as a partner and collaborator.
Charlotte Murchison
Charlotte Murchison collected and studied fossils, with other geologists of the time studying and publishing works about fossils in her collection.
Eleanor Stodart
Eleanor Stodart worked in the CSIRO Division of Wildlife Research and later authored and illustrated many nature and science books for children, including the acclaimed ‘Australian Junior Field Guides’ series, campaigned tirelessly for quality science books, took a leading role in the Children’s Book Council of Australia, and was editor of the journal ‘Reading Time’.
Ende
It is well-established that, by the 13th century, women were involved in book production as scribes, illustrators, and illuminators of manuscripts, but Ende’s work makes clear that women were involved in this process as early as the 10th century.
Lilian Marguerite Medland
Lilian Medland trained and worked for many years as a nurse in England and illustrated The Birds of the British Isles between 1906 and 1911, among other books.
Kathleen Quigly
20th century Irish artist
Anne Baker
1800s English linguist, natural historian and illustrator