Anne Lynch Botta
American author and sculptor
American author and sculptor
American sculptor; in 1937, she completed the Burnett Memorial Fountain in Central Park, her best-known large-scale work
American painter, distinguished for her portraits of women and children
American illustrator and designer
Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist
New Zealander Thyra Avis produced a comic strip and books featuring two pohutukawa fairies called Hutu and Kawa, which conveyed an understanding of ecology and a strong conservationist ethos.
Poetess of the Spiritual Life
Actress Adah Isaacs Menken was noted as a woman of extraordinary beauty, culture, and brilliancy. She was famous for her marriages and divorces, and a volume of poetry by her was published as Infelicia (1868).
She was a pioneer of modernist painting in Australia and her work is greatly sought after.
A leading charity worker and artist in Western Australia from the 1890s to the 1910s