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Senior Superintendent of Nurses in the United States
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June Margaret Litman
New Zealand journalist
Alice Milligan
Irish novelist, playwright, and political activist
Theodora FitzGibbon
Irish cookery expert and writer
Edith Searle Grossmann
New Zealand teacher, novelist, journalist, feminist
Caroline Howard
Caroline Howard achieved national prominence in 1874 as one of those involved in a celebrated controversy about Irish women immigrants in New Zealand. She was also well known throughout Otago during the 1860s as a businesswoman and public figure.
Elizabeth Kelso
New Zealand journalist, editor, community leader
Elizabeth Bowen
Irish writer
Letitia Youmans
Canadian temperance campaigner
Madeleine Smith
Madeleine Smith’s trial for the murder of her lover, Emile L’Angelier, in 1857, combined those twin Victorian obsessions, sex and death, in a way that not only led to questions about womanhood in general, but about the whole fabric of society.