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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. New Zealand suffragist (1848–1934) For other people with similar names, see Kate Shepherd and Katharine Shepard. Kate Sheppard Sheppard photographed in 1905 Born Catherine Wilson Malcolm (1848-03-10) 10 March 1848 Liverpool, England Died 13 July 1934 (1934-07-13) (aged 86) Christchurch ...
Editors of the WCTU's organ, The Union Signal and its former namesakes, The Woman's Temperance Union, and Our Union have included: [2] Mary Bannister Willard (January 1883 - July 1885) Mary Allen West (July 1885 - 1892) Harriet B. Kells (1891-1894) Frances Willard (1892 - February 1898) Lillian M. N. Stevens (February 1898 - April 1914)
May was born in Hoxton, London, England, on 22 June 1850, and was the younger sister of suffragist Kate Sheppard. [1] [2] She arrived in New Zealand in 1869 with her mother, Kate, and their two brothers. In 1879, ten years after landing in Christchurch, she married Henry Ernest May. They had four children together.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity ."
Temperance crusaders found willing listeners among women in places like New Zealand and Australia. In 1885 she championed the formation of the New Zealand Woman's Christian Temperance Union under the leadership of many suffragists who then became more organized nationally under the Franchise Superintendency of Kate Sheppard.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was founded in Ohio in November 1874. It became the largest women's organization in the United States. Under president Annie Turner Wittenmyer, the WCTU organized national campaigns to advocate for temperance. These steps focused on literature publication, including a weekly newspaper dedicated to ...
Kate Somerville has revealed the first group of winners of its annual scholarship program. The program, which Kate Somerville unveiled last year, entails the brand donating $100,000 annually to ...
Influenced by the American Frances Willard of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the philosophy of thinkers like Harriet Taylor Mill and John Stuart Mill, the movement argued that women could bring morality into democratic politics. [15] Kate Sheppard, a WCTU NZ activist, was a leading advocate for political action for women's rights ...