Helen Kirkpatrick
Journalist and war correspondent
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Dickey Chapelle
Photojournalist and war correspondent
Alma Mahler
Austrian composer
Adah Lee Pettey Roussan
Adah Lee Pettey Roussan was a pioneering American newspaperwoman who took over the Osceola Times after the death of her husband, running it from 1906 to 1918. An indefatigable progressive, she championed political reforms and societal betterment.
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’.
Eliza Jane Ashley
Eliza Jane Burnett Dodson Ashley spent more than thirty years as the cook in the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion, serving from the administration of Francis Cherry to Bill Clinton. Her 1985 book Thirty Years at the Mansion garnered her national attention.
Dorothea Frey
Dorothea Frey was an Australian pathologist, medical mycologist and author.
Shahrnush Parsipur
Considered one of Iran’s bravest and boldest literary voices
Kylie Tennant
One of Australia’s most prominent writers in the mid-20th century, known especially for her socialist realist portrayals of the hardships of the working class and unemployed
Bobbi Sykes
Forced out of school early by racism, she became a nurse, before working as a journalist. She helped to found the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern, and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, among many other entities. In the early 1970s, as a prominent activist for Aboriginal rights, Sykes was invited to speak on racism, rights and colonialism in countries including the UK, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.