First woman to write a serious book about America; first person to set up an experimental colony, Nashoba near Memphis, with the object of enabling enslaved people to work for their freedom; first woman to co-edit a newspaper in America, first female public orator in America.
New Zealand teacher, community worker and editor
Australian social work educator and teacher
Australian businesswoman, equal opportunity practitioner, social worker and university chancellor
Irish music campaigner and founder of the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland
Pioneering academic and mistress of Girton College, Cambridge
Irish professor of obstetrics and gynaecology
Irish trade unionist
American-New Zealander home science professor
Doreen Blumhardt was the one of the most important figures in New Zealand’s arts and crafts world in the second half of the twentieth century.