Ramona Bennett
American Puyallup leader and advocate whose indomitable spirit ignited the 1960s and 1970s Fish Wars in the US Pacific Northwest.
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Amy Curtis
Superintendent of the Women’s Royal Naval Service in the Portsmouth command (1939–44), worked in the resettlement advice service of the British ministry of labour and national service (1945–8), and was chief administrative officer of the Women’s Land Army in its last years (1948–50).
Annie Cleland Millar
New Zealand baker and businesswoman
Katrine Mackay
lthough Katrine had no formal schooling after the age of 10, at 17 she was reckoned to be ‘a prodigy in literature’, as by then she had published serially in the Australian Journal a novel, ‘Eve’s Sacrifice’, and had numerous novelettes and short stories printed in the Australasian, Hamilton Spectator and Sydney Bulletin.
Mildred Trent
Described as ‘one of the best known, most public-spirited, and most useful women in Canterbury’.
Bell McElligott
Tough, spirited and independent, Bell McElligott responded to the needs of her family and friends throughout her life and helped others in practical ways. She fought for her beliefs, and took pride in the awards she received for her community and political activities.
Edith Niederer
Dairy farmer active in the Women’s Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union
Michiyo Tsujimura
Michiyo Tsujimura (辻村みちよ) was a Japanese agricultural scientist and biochemist known for her pioneering work on green tea components. She was the first woman in Japan to earn a doctoral degree in agriculture.
Catherine Mathieson
New Zealand community leader
Theodora FitzGibbon
Irish cookery expert and writer