Kate Warfield
Eliza Shaw Hood, Ellen Stuart, and Kate Warfield all hailed from Glen Ellen. All three lived and worked near one another, and all three took over the wineries owned by their respective husbands in the late 1870s and early 1880s.
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Mary Reynolds
Irish merchant and politician
Ruth Graisberry
Irish printer who succeeded her husband as college printer in 1822 after successfully petitioning the Trinity College Dublin to retain her, with the backing of the leading figures in the capital’s printing trade.
Alice Basten
Alice Basten was one of the first prominent female accountants in New Zealand, as well as a businesswoman and local politician.
Eileen Gallagher
20th century Irish businesswoman
Mary Anne Keeley
English actress and theatre manager
Elisabeth Marbury
American author’s representative and theatrical manager.
Amelia Randall
Amelia Mary Randall, although quiet and unassuming, was during the early twentieth century one of the wealthiest women in Hawke’s Bay, and an important public benefactor.
Emily White
Emily White made a significant contribution to community and horticultural life in New Zealand, and was her adopted country’s first woman gardening author of note.
Nora Herlihy
Founder of the Irish credit union movement