Dr Frances Heywood
In the 1930s Frances started the research for which she is best known and which led to her PhD, on the characteristics of the tin-based alloys used in making typeface.
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Grace Drayton
In 1904 Grace Drayton produced drawings for streetcar ads for what became her best known creation, the Campbell Kids.
Helen Hokinson
One of the best known and beloved cartoonists for the New Yorker
Dorothy McKay
Humorous illustrator and cartoonist for such magazines as Esquire, the New Yorker, Life, and Colliers.
Edith O’Shaughnessy
American journalist, biographer, screenwriter and political spouse
Edwina Dumm
Beginning as a daily in 1918, her comic was expanded with a Sunday feature that ran from 1938 to 1963.
Dorothy Heyward
American playwright
Cathy Guisewite
Debuting in 1976, Cathy Guisewite’s unapologetically autobiographical strip addressed romance, marriage, family relationships, pets, food, and work
Célia Bertin
Célia Bertin was recruited to help Allied aviators hidden in Occupied Paris because of her ability to speak English. In 1993 she published a study of women during this period, Femmes sous l’Occupation.
Claire Chevrillon
After the increasingly harsh laws were imposed on Jewish citizens during WWII, she joined the resistance most notably encoding and decoding messages between the Free French in London and de Gaulle’s Paris delegation.