In her 1806 book Conversations on Chemistry, Marcet an influential science writer, taught chemistry lessons through fictional conversations between a teacher and her two female students. This popular book went through numerous editions and was published in many different languages.
As one of the first women justices of the peace in Christchurch she was later made an associate magistrate to the Children’s Court. Within the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women, Elizabeth Taylor promoted issues such as a motherhood endowment, women police, the right of married women to retain their own nationality, and women in politics.
Irish Red Cross volunteer
Irish journalist, broadcaster, and activist
Abbess of the convent of Longchamp, near Paris
Swedish poet
1600s playwright, poet and spy
Musician and writer
New Zealand romance novelist, actress, theatre producer and playwright.
The author of a dozen novels and many scores of short stories that were widely read in New Zealand during the first four decades of the twentieth century