Airini Elizabeth Woodhouse

Airini Woodhouse was undoubtedly South Canterbury’s outstanding countrywoman in this century, combining an active farm life and service on numerous voluntary organisations with her chosen vocation as a local historian

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Eslanda Robeson

A staunch opponent of injustice, Eslanda found her intellectual community and political point of view in New York, where she was located in history on the eve of the Harlem Renaissance and the end of the Bolshevik revolution.

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Hannah Weinberger

The first woman winemaker from the United States to be given an award on the world stage, who produced the first California wine to ever be awarded an international medal.

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Josephine Tychson

After losing her husband to suicide during his battle with tuberculosis, Josephine undertook an extensive rebuilding of his winery and oversaw the very first harvest. She kept the business alive until 1895 when she decided to sell it to the then burgeoning giant Italian Swiss Colony. The winery, located near St. Helena, still stands today as part of Freemark Abbey Wines.

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Eliza Shaw Hood

Eliza Shaw Hood, Ellen Stuart, and Kate Warfield all hailed from Glen Ellen. All three lived and worked near one another, and all three took over the wineries owned by their respective husbands in the late 1870s and early 1880s.

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Ellen Stuart

Eliza Shaw Hood, Ellen Stuart, and Kate Warfield all hailed from Glen Ellen. All three lived and worked near one another, and all three took over the wineries owned by their respective husbands in the late 1870s and early 1880s.

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Kate Warfield

Eliza Shaw Hood, Ellen Stuart, and Kate Warfield all hailed from Glen Ellen. All three lived and worked near one another, and all three took over the wineries owned by their respective husbands in the late 1870s and early 1880s.

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Ruth Graisberry

Irish printer who succeeded her husband as college printer in 1822 after successfully petitioning the Trinity College Dublin to retain her, with the backing of the leading figures in the capital’s printing trade.

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