Kitty Seville
New Zealand health and welfare worker
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Marjorie Chambers
New Zealand nursing pioneer
Ellenor Watson
New Zealand community leader
Janet Fraser
Her lifelong concern for the poor and disadvantaged and her lively interest in health matters and women’s concerns made her an important adviser to her politician husband.
Hilda Rollett
New Zealand teacher, journalist and writer
Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi
Māori Te Āti Awa leader, trader, innkeeper
Grace Gifford
Irish cartoonist and republican
Mildred Trent
Described as ‘one of the best known, most public-spirited, and most useful women in Canterbury’.
Eva Gore-Booth
Irish poet, mystic, trade unionist and suffragist
Jetsun Pema
In 2011, Jetsun Pema (རྗེ་བཙུན་པདྨ་) was crowned Druk Gyaltsuen – the Dragon Queen of Bhutan – and is currently the world’s youngest queen consort.