Jeannetta Blackie
New Zealand governess, teacher and church administrator
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Mary Pulling
Founding headmistress of the Diocesan High School for Girls in Auckland.
Annie Henry
New Zealand Presbyterian missionary who worked in Maori communities
Florence Keller
A few years before her retirement in her mid 90s, Florence Keller was acclaimed the oldest practising surgeon in the world.
Agnes II
Abbess of Quedlinburg and one of the most distinguished artists of the 1100s, excelling in miniature painting and embroidery.
Matilda Jane Evans
English-Australian author of religious tales
Mere Rikiriki
Ngāti Apa prophet
Jane Bulstrode
The two Bulstrode sisters were Englishwomen who came to New Zealand to take charge of Hukarere Native Girls’ School in Napier in 1899.
Emily Bulstrode
The two Bulstrode sisters were Englishwomen who came to New Zealand to take charge of Hukarere Native Girls’ School in Napier in 1899.
Æmelia
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.