As one of the first women justices of the peace in Christchurch she was later made an associate magistrate to the Children’s Court. Within the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women, Elizabeth Taylor promoted issues such as a motherhood endowment, women police, the right of married women to retain their own nationality, and women in politics.
New Zealand domestic worker and community leader
New Zealand botanist, teacher and temperance campaigner
New Zealand teacher, temperance worker and suffragist
New Zealand teacher, temperance worker and political activist
African-American writer, temperance activist and music professor
New Zealand temperance campaigner, suffragist and feminist
Pioneering physician in the Philadelphia African-American community and one of the first Black women to become a physician in the United States.
New Zealand teacher, prohibitionist, landowner, businesswoman
First woman to write a serious book about America; first person to set up an experimental colony, Nashoba near Memphis, with the object of enabling enslaved people to work for their freedom; first woman to co-edit a newspaper in America, first female public orator in America.