Flora MacKenzie

Between 1962 and 1976 Flora MacKenzie appeared in court six times on brothel-keeping charges, and was twice imprisoned for periods of six months.

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Catherine Duncan

Catherine Duncan was an actor, playwright, film-maker and author who became the first woman credited as director in an Australian film since the McDonagh sisters in the 1930s.

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Anne Crawford Acheson

Irish sculptor who was the first woman to be elected a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (1938), was an Associate of the Royal College of Art, and was made CBE in 1919 in recognition of her war work at the Surgical Requisites Association in London, where she developed surgical aids.

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Anna Hyatt Huntington

American sculptor whose consists chiefly of small bronzes of animals, notable examples of which are in the Metropolitan Museum. Her bronze equestrian statue of Joan of Arc adorns Riverside Drive in the City of New York, and her productions have been exhibited in most of the salons of Europe.

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