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Mexican writer and nun.
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Merlina Acevedo
Mexican writer, graphic artist, and musician.
Ruth Ross
New Zealand historian
Violet Roche
Her superb diplomacy and indefatigable energy enabled her to maintain New Zealand-wide support at an unprecedented level for 20 years for a charity based on the other side of the world.
Mona Tracy
Mona Tracy was one of three Canterbury writers whose children’s books, written in the 1920s, have stood the test of time.
Lily Rees
New Zealand writer, teacher, lawyer and community leader
Mary Simpson
Mary Simpson was a religious healer and teacher who was largely responsible for establishing the Christian Science church in New Zealand. A strong – some would say autocratic – spiritual leader, she later founded and led a breakaway group known as the Divine Science Fellowship.
Helen Mary Wilson
Helen Wilson achieved recognition as a leading figure in the Women’s Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union and, in later years, as a writer.
Agnes Meyer
American journalist, philanthropist, civil rights activist, and art patron.
Mary St Domitille Hickey
New Zealand Catholic nun, school principal and historian