Working almost entirely in watercolours, Enga Washbourn painted landscapes, historical buildings and a few portraits. She depicted scenes in Nelson, Golden Bay, Canterbury and the West Coast. Unique in style, her paintings became known for their clarity, simplicity, colour, light and movement.
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.
Jessie Mackay’s crusading spirit informed her poetry, and her poetry is a record of all the causes she held dear.
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.
Irish landscape and portrait artist, art teacher, and writer
Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
English traveler and writer
Distinguished German soprano
Founder of Sopewell Nunnery
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.