Maria Parloa
American domestic economist and author. She was an authority on the proper preparation of food and on household management upon which subjects she lectured and wrote extensively.
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Rosina Buckman
Rosina Buckman is remembered for her infinite capacity for taking pains, for allowing nothing to interfere with her work, and above all for her unwavering dedication to the art of singing.
Maude Blackett
Maude Blackett was one of the first chief librarians to have been trained in New Zealand. She consistently promoted the professionalism of the country’s library service.
Diny Schramm
Dutch pianist known for making ‘serious’ music fun for a generation of New Zealand children
Máirín de Valera
Irish phycologist
Jessie Mackay
Jessie Mackay’s crusading spirit informed her poetry, and her poetry is a record of all the causes she held dear.
Louisa Lee Schuyler
American philanthropic social worker
Mary Emma Woolley
American educator
Stella Pines
In the 1930s, Stella Pines led a movement which sought to make postgraduate education for nurses available at Australian universities.
Rita May Harris
Harris worked with the Australian kindergarten movement, joining the committee of the Collingwood Creche/Kindergarten in 1920, and becoming a member of the executive committee of the Free Kindergarten Union in 1933, assuming the vice-presidency from 1947-50. She was also a member of the Women’s Hospital Committee, and president from 1945-8, when the hospital was challenged by the coincidence of the post-war baby boom and a shortage of materials for redevelopment.