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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Nesca Robb
20th century Irish author
Bridget Hedderman
Irish district nurse
Ethel Mayne
Irish novelist, short story writer, biographer and translator
Rosalynn Carter
Rosalynn Carter, wife of the thirty-ninth U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, forged a career in public service as one of the nation’s foremost advocates for mental health.
Melissa Fay Greene
Melissa Fay Greene’s award-winning books Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing chronicle dramatic episodes in the civil rights movement in Georgia (U.S.).
Sadie Forman
A fierce non-sectarian and advocate for racial equality and women’s rights in South Africa
Betsy Sheridan
Irish novelist and diarist
Sylvia Neame
South African anti-apartheid and political activist and writer
Sara Varley McCarthy
Ohio reporter and social welfare volunteer who helped organize the Cleveland Diocesan Council of the National Councl of Catholic Women in 1923, received a papal medal for distinguished service by a layperson to the Catholic Church in 1936.