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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 477. Not illustrated. Chapters: Actress Damehoods, Australian Dames, British Dames, New Zealand Dames, Sporting Dames, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret Rutherford, Julie Andrews, Judi Dench, Wendy Hiller, Flora Robson, Maggie Smith, Thora Hird, Dorothy Tutin, Ngaio Marsh, Celia Johnson, Gladys Cooper, Ellen Terry, Australian Knights and Dames, Joan Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Nellie Melba, Kiri Te Kanawa, Anna Neagle, Kelly Holmes, Living Australian Knights and Dames, Marie Tempest, Ellen Macarthur, Judith Anderson, Diana Rigg, Silvia Cartwright, Gracie Fields, Catherine Tizard, Eileen Atkins, Peggy Ashcroft, Joan Hammond, Madge Kendal, Edith Evans, Te Atairangikaahu, Joan Plowright, Sybil Thorndike, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Enid Lyons, Peggy Van Praagh, Cicely Courtneidge, Elisabeth Murdoch, Mary Gilmore, Mary Durack, May Whitty, Sian Elias, Naomi James, Mary Herring, Anne Salmond, Mary Hughes, Carol Kidu, Marie Clay, Leonie Kramer, Annie Mcewen, Louise Henderson, Dame Mary Cook, Roma Mitchell, Annabelle Rankin, Margaret Guilfoyle, Mabel Brookes, Elizabeth Couchman, Jean Macnamara, Dorothy Tangney, List of Sporting Knights and Dames, Pattie Menzies, Malvina Major, Mary Peters, Whina Cooper, Ida Mann, Doris Fitton, Rachel Cleland, Alice Chisholm, Alexandra Hasluck, Marjorie Parker, Augusta Wallace, Nancy Buttfield, Bridget Ogilvie, Jean Herbison, Audrey Reader, Zara Bate, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Marie Breen, Jacobena Angliss, Elizabeth Gilmer, Merlyn Myer, Ella Macknight, Kate Isabel Campbell, Beryl Beaurepaire, Margaret Scott, Flora Reid, Sister Philippa Brazill, Joan Metge, Patricia Mackinnon, Helen Blaxland, Miriam Dell, Emily Penrose, Annie Cardell-Oliver, Raigh Roe, Georgina Kirby, Monica Gallagher, Lilian Braithwaite, Ivy Wedgwood, Phyllis Frost, Gertrude Cosgrove, Pat Evison, Alice Berry. Excerpt:
