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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

American poet and philanthropist

Maria Parloa

American domestic economist and author. She was an authority on the proper preparation of food and on household management upon which subjects she lectured and wrote extensively.

Mary C Ames

American author, best known by her Woman’s Letter from Washington, contributed for many years to the New York Independent.

Mary Hunter Austin

American author and dramatist

Susanne Day

Irish writer and suffragist

Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a prominent activist in the fields of Māori welfare and health from the 1970s to the 1990s. She was a long-serving member and president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and an acclaimed researcher in the area of Māori women’s health. She also served on the Human Rights Commission and in a wide variety of other public positions. An accomplished actor, singer and orator, she also composed waiata and poetry.

Enga Washbourn

Working almost entirely in watercolours, Enga Washbourn painted landscapes, historical buildings and a few portraits. She depicted scenes in Nelson, Golden Bay, Canterbury and the West Coast. Unique in style, her paintings became known for their clarity, simplicity, colour, light and movement.

Hedda Dyson

Throughout her editorship, the Woman’s Weekly increased its circulation rapidly, from 22,447 in 1934 to 32,202 by the end of the decade, reaching 67,663 by 1948.