Christine de Pizan
1300s and 1400s Italian-born French writer, philosopher, composer and feminist
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Belinda Probert
Belinda Probert’s research and writing are focused on the changing nature of work and employment and new patterns of advantage and disadvantage, particularly the way these changes have interacted with households and the domestic division of labour.
Annie Bellew McCann
Annie McCann collected botanical specimens in a wide region in the Victorian highlands; the National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 200 of her specimens. McCann was an accomplished painter and published a book of poems in 1888.
Rosamond Jacob
20th century Irish suffragist, republican, and writer
Doreen Corcoran
20th century Irish local historian
Judith Arundell Wright
Judith Wright wrote on many issues including nature conservation and the rights of indigenous people. She fought to save the Great Barrier Reef from mining and oil drilling and to establish the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
Dr Anita Mary Mühl
Anita Mühl was an American psychiatrist who specialised in children’s needs.
Jocelyn Brown
One of Australia’s first professionally trained landscape designers, she introduced ‘Garden City’ concepts to Sydney in the 1930s influencing garden design through her garden commissions, art and writing.
Dorothea MacKellar
Australian poet and contributor to the genre of nationalist verse
Halina Teresa Szunejko
Polish-Australian community activist