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.
English community, education and arts activist
New Zealand home science teacher and administrator and writer
New Zeleand teacher, journalist, feminist
Irish historian and political activist
Victorian English feminist and social reformer who campaigned for women’s suffrage, the right of women to better education, the end of coverture in British law, the abolition of child prostitution, and an end to human trafficking of young women and children into European prostitution.
New Zealand artist, physiotherapist, health camp organiser, youth hostel founder, community leader
Irish lecturer at Alexandra College and pioneer of women’s higher education
New Zealand teacher, educationalist
Irish librarian and republican