Edna Pengelly
As one of New Zealand’s most distinguished nurses, she had not only cared for the sick and wounded but contributed to the welfare of the young.
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Dorothea Conyers
Irish novelist
Anna C Maxwell
Senior Superintendent of Nurses in the United States
Theodora FitzGibbon
Irish cookery expert and writer
Edith Searle Grossmann
New Zealand teacher, novelist, journalist, feminist
Caroline Howard
Caroline Howard achieved national prominence in 1874 as one of those involved in a celebrated controversy about Irish women immigrants in New Zealand. She was also well known throughout Otago during the 1860s as a businesswoman and public figure.
Elizabeth Kelso
New Zealand journalist, editor, community leader
June Margaret Litman
New Zealand journalist
Alice Milligan
Irish novelist, playwright, and political activist
Margery Kempe
English Christian mystic, known for The Book of Margery Kempe, possibly the first autobiography in the English language.