Florence Keller
A few years before her retirement in her mid 90s, Florence Keller was acclaimed the oldest practising surgeon in the world.
A few years before her retirement in her mid 90s, Florence Keller was acclaimed the oldest practising surgeon in the world.
She laid the foundations for educational attainment among blind people in New Zealand, when many assumed that the blind were incapable of leading productive lives.
New Zealand governess, teacher and church administrator
Founding headmistress of the Diocesan High School for Girls in Auckland.
English-Australian author of religious tales
Abbess of Quedlinburg and one of the most distinguished artists of the 1100s, excelling in miniature painting and embroidery.
Ngāti Apa prophet
The two Bulstrode sisters were Englishwomen who came to New Zealand to take charge of Hukarere Native Girls’ School in Napier in 1899.
The two Bulstrode sisters were Englishwomen who came to New Zealand to take charge of Hukarere Native Girls’ School in Napier in 1899.
According to Dionysius, and Valerius Maximus, a vestal virgin, who being condemned to die for her negligence in allowing the sacred fire, which it was her duty to watch and feed, to become extinguished, rekindled the embers miraculously by throwing her veil over them.