Helen Stephen Cowie
Dr Helen, as she was known, specialised in obstetrics and anaesthetics
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Catherine Carran
New Zealander who experienced the wars of the north, the goldrush, pioneering on a sheep run and small farms, and acting as midwife and nurse to a region in the process of settlement, and met all these challenges with exceptional fortitude.
Mabel Osgood Wright
Popular American nature writer and novelist
Ethel Bentham
Irish doctor and Member of Parliament
Kitty Kain
Kitty Kain was appointed superintendent of New Zealand’s Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in 1941.
Edith Blake
Irish botanical illustrator and writer
Maude Delap
Irish naturalist and marine biologist
Constance Delap
With her father and sisters she collected plants and animals from the shore and, following her father’s habit, began writing and sending specimens to the Natural History Museum in London.
Elizabeth Bell
Irish medical doctor and suffragist
Ettie Annie Rout
Ettie Rout gained a public profile as a cyclist, vegetarian, freethinker and physical culturist.