Religion Archives - Page 20 of 26

Juliana Berners

Founder of Sopewell Nunnery

Annie Besant

English theosophist, author and lecturer

In 1901 she established a women’s collective clothing factory and was appointed the chair of its board. She continued her work for electoral reform and moved the resolution that brought the South Australian National Council of Women into existence, although she found the organisation too cautious and resigned from the executive in 1906.

Sarah Lancaster

In 1908 Lancaster founded Australia’s first Pentecostalist church.

Rosemary Goldie

International Catholic women’s activist

Alice Kate Blackall

In Melbourne she joined the Catholic Women’s Social Guild (CWSG) a feminist organisation encouraging Catholic lay women to become publicly active and work towards equal rights for women. She was a member of the CWSG central organizing committee for three years and secretary for one year, and was influential in its modernisation.

Mary Berchmans

Sent to Melbourne as part of the first Victorian foundation she continued teaching, however visits to the homes of the poor convinced her of the need for a hospital similar to the one the sisters had founded in Sydney. Appointed Superior to the foundation in Melbourne in 1892 she was able to bring the hospital to fruition.

Winifred Kiek

Her book outlining her child-rearing theories, Child Nature and Child Nurture, was published in 1927. She was also active in many women’s organisations: a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and president in 1926; a member of the National Council of Women from the early 1920s, a convenor of its committee on equal moral standards in 1927-1931 and member of its committee for peace and arbitration from 1938-1950.

Catherine McAuley

Irish educator, social worker, and religious foundress

Sheila Cloney

Protagonist in the 1957 Fethard-on-Sea religious boycott in Ireland