Puna Hīmene Te Rangimārie
Described as the ‘smartest Māori woman it has been my lot to meet’ by an investigating policeman, Puna Hīmene Te Rangimārie was one of the first to be prosecuted under the Tohunga Suppression Act 1907.
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Theodelinda
Theodelinda, queen of the Lombards, is celebrated because of her instrumentality in converting the Arian Lombards to the Roman church.
Irene of Athens
Famed Byzantine empress
Radegund of Poitiers
Thuringian princess and Frankish queen, founder of a scholarly abbey
Margaret Sangster
She became one of the popular American poets in the period following the Civil War, and her poems “Elizabeth Aged Nine,” and “Are the Children at Home?” were known the country over.
Margaret Kissling
The Kisslings established a Māori girls’ boarding school in buildings which Bishop G. A. Selwyn had purchased from William Spain at Kohimarama (Mission Bay).
Marianne Williams
Marianne Williams was the first substantial witness to record, from a woman’s point of view, early domestic interaction among Māori and Pākehā.
Christina Kirk Henderson
Her mother’s mission work led Christina to take an active role in the Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union of New Zealand. She served as secretary (1917–20) and president (1930–32), but her main contribution was her editorship, from 1923 until 1946, of Harvest Field, the union’s magazine.
Mary Isabel Lambie
Her innovation helped shape the future of New Zealand nursing.
Elizabeth of Hungary
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231)