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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 December 2024. 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 ...
Pages in category "Kate Sheppard" ... Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand This page was last edited on 31 December 2023, at 23:02 (UTC). ...
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.
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. [14] Kate Sheppard, a WCTU NZ activist, was a leading advocate for political action for women's rights ...
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)
Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand (WCTU NZ) is a non-partisan, ... In June 1895, Kate Sheppard attended the World's WCTU conference in London, ...
The first sheet of the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition. Archives Reference LE1 1893/7a The 1893 women's suffrage petition was the third of three petitions to the New Zealand Government in support of women's suffrage and resulted in the Electoral Act 1893, which gave women the right to vote in the 1893 general election. The 1893 petition was substantially larger than the 1891 petition, which had ...
The memorial is a stone aggregate wall, with a life size bronze relief sculpture of Sheppard and five other women's suffrage leaders. Panels on either side of the sculpture depict scenes of everyday women's lives at the end of the nineteenth century, and carry text describing the struggle for women's suffrage.