Mildred Trent
Described as ‘one of the best known, most public-spirited, and most useful women in Canterbury’.
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Mary Crooke
1600s Irish printer and bookseller
Emma Brignell Ostler
New Zealand teacher, prohibitionist, landowner, businesswoman
Emily Cordner-Pinkerton
Irish publisher
Aggie Grey
Aggie Grey left an indelible mark as a prominent hotelier and businesswoman in Samoa.
Adelaide Conroy
Adelaide Conroy was a notable photographer based in Malta from 1871 to 1879.
Agnes Bernard
Irish nun, teacher, and founder of Providence Mill
Belinda Mulrooney
Irish-American frontier entrepreneur
Sophia Anstice
New Zealand dressmaker, draper and businesswoman who started a chain of dressmaking and drapery shops in 19th century New Zealand.
Caroline Howard
Caroline Howard achieved national prominence in 1874 as one of those involved in a celebrated controversy about Irish women immigrants in New Zealand. She was also well known throughout Otago during the 1860s as a businesswoman and public figure.