Jessie Street

Jessie Street

female, deceased (1970)
second world war, equal pay, Chota Nagpur Division, social justice, Australian, australian aborigine…Secretary of the National Council of Women, NationalLibrary, National Council of Women, National Women, National Archives
Born in Chota Nagpur, Bihar, India, Jessie Mary Grey Street (April 18, 1889 - July 2, 1970) was an Australian suffragette, feminist and human...
Henry Morley

Henry Morley

male, deceased (1894)
Moravian, Cornelius Agrippa, First Sketch of English Literature, Hatton Garden, All the Year Round, Household Words…NationalLibrary
Henry Morley (15 September 1822 - 1894), writer on English literature, son of an apothecary, was born in Hatton Garden, London, educated at a...
William Strutt

William Strutt

male, deceased (1915)
Australian Magazine, culloden, Ballarat, Victoria, Black Thursday, February 6th. 1851, English, Teignmouth…NationalLibrary
William Strutt was an English artist. Strutt was born in Teignmouth, Devon, England, and came from a family of artists, his grandfather, Joseph...
Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector

female, deceased (1977)
ukrainian, yiddish, Perto do Coração Selvagem, Recife, Maceió, writer…NationalLibrary
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels, she was also an accomplished writer of short stories...
Lisa Jardine

Lisa Jardine

female, 65 years old
Alumnae of Cheltenham Ladies' College, Renaissance, early modern period, Cambridge Mathematical Tripos, Cheltenham Ladies' College, Queen Mary, University of London…NationalLibrary, Library Committee, National Council
Lisa Jardine (born Lisa Anne Bronowski, April 12 1944) is a British historian of the early modern period. She is professor of Renaissance Studies...

Judith Rodriguez

female, 73 years old
Australian women writer, libretto, poet, woodcuts, Lindy, Deakin University…NationalLibrary
Judith Rodriguez (born 1936) is a contemporary Australian poet. Judith Rodriguez was born in Perth and grew up in Brisbane. She has published...
Miriam Hyde

Miriam Hyde

female, deceased (2005)
Alumni of the Royal College of Music, obe, poet, Order of Australia, Royal College of Music, Order of the British Empire…NationalLibrary
Miriam Hyde AO OBE (January 15, 1913 - January 11, 2005) was an Australian composer, pianist, poet and music educator. She composed many works for...
Tony Rafty

Tony Rafty

male, 94 years old
new guinea, War artist, Australian, artist, borneo, Greek Australian…National Library of Australia, NationalLibrary, Indonesian National Revolution
Tony Rafty OAM (born Tony Raftopoulos on 12 October 1915) is an Australian artist of Greek descent. He specialises in drawing caricatures. Rafty...

Jaime C. de Veyra

Tanauan, Resident Commissioner from the Philippines, From the Philippines, filipino, lawyer, university of santo tomas…NationalLibrary, Institute of National Language
Jaime Carlos de Veyra, a Resident Commissioner from the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands; born in Tanauan, Province of Leyte, Philippine...
Victor Robinson

Victor Robinson

male, deceased (1947)
New York University alumni, Columbia Law School alumni, An Essay on Hasheesh, American, journalist, physician…NationalLibrary
Victor Robinson (born 1886, Ukraine, died 1947) was a physician and medical journalist. He is the author of several medical books, including "An...