Elza Žiglevica

Member of the Latvian Women’s Auxiliary Corps, which provided food for the thousands of troops during WWI, who died bringing soldiers food

Continue reading

Hanna Wisnes

Under the pseudonym of “Hugo Schwarz” she wrote several novels, an excellent book for children, and some popular nursery rhymes. Her principal work, which she wrote under her own name, is the Textbook in Cookery (1845).

Continue reading

Gertrude Denman

Director of the Women’s Land Army during the Second World War, and President of the Women’s Institute from 1917 – 1946.

Continue reading

Betty Baxter

Violet ‘Betty’ Baxter became known as the ‘Silver Lady’, for her support and work with those facing homelessness and destitution.

Continue reading

Ellen Stuart

Eliza Shaw Hood, Ellen Stuart, and Kate Warfield all hailed from Glen Ellen. All three lived and worked near one another, and all three took over the wineries owned by their respective husbands in the late 1870s and early 1880s.

Continue reading

Kate Warfield

Eliza Shaw Hood, Ellen Stuart, and Kate Warfield all hailed from Glen Ellen. All three lived and worked near one another, and all three took over the wineries owned by their respective husbands in the late 1870s and early 1880s.

Continue reading