Alice Basten
Alice Basten was one of the first prominent female accountants in New Zealand, as well as a businesswoman and local politician.
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Eileen Gallagher
20th century Irish businesswoman
Mary Anne Keeley
English actress and theatre manager
Elisabeth Marbury
American author’s representative and theatrical manager.
Amelia Randall
Amelia Mary Randall, although quiet and unassuming, was during the early twentieth century one of the wealthiest women in Hawke’s Bay, and an important public benefactor.
Emily White
Emily White made a significant contribution to community and horticultural life in New Zealand, and was her adopted country’s first woman gardening author of note.
Nora Herlihy
Founder of the Irish credit union movement
Annie Elsom
Annie established her own successful floristry business in Christchurch at the end of the 1800s.
Anne Deane
Irish businesswoman, philanthropist, and nationalist
Connie Birchfield
New Zealand communist activist