Hedda Dyson
Throughout her editorship, the Woman’s Weekly increased its circulation rapidly, from 22,447 in 1934 to 32,202 by the end of the decade, reaching 67,663 by 1948.
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Jessie Mackay
Jessie Mackay’s crusading spirit informed her poetry, and her poetry is a record of all the causes she held dear.
Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson
Caroline Atkinson was a keen student of natural history and an accomplished botanical illustrator. She was also a populariser of science and published in the “Sydney Morning Herald” and the “Horticultural Magazine”. Over 800 of Atkinson’s specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.
Lilian Davidson
Irish landscape and portrait artist, art teacher, and writer
Mary Davys
Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
Hester Stanhope
English traveler and writer
Lilli Lehmann
Distinguished German soprano
Juliana Berners
Founder of Sopewell Nunnery
Catherine Berndt
The breadth and extent of the Berndts’ research and publications, both as a team and alone, has made a major contribution to anthropological knowledge in Australia.
Catherine Helen Spence
In 1901 she established a women’s collective clothing factory and was appointed the chair of its board. She continued her work for electoral reform and moved the resolution that brought the South Australian National Council of Women into existence, although she found the organisation too cautious and resigned from the executive in 1906.