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• Nellie Scanlan, author

  Ellen Margaret Scanlan, 1882-1968, New Zealand's most widely read popular novelist of the 1930s and 1940s. She was born in Picton on 15 January 1882, of Irish Catholic...

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• Bessie Te Wenerau Grace, educational leader

  Bessie Te Wenerau Grace, 1889-1944, was the first Māori woman to receive a degree from a university.  Bessie Grace Bessie Grace. Image supplied by author In the first half...

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• Mary Isoline Watson, wandering washerwoman

  Mary Watson, 1906-1968, married at an early age and settled on a farm at Seddon. Here she became Marlborough's first woman motor cycle rider. mary watson Mary Watson. Image supplied...

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• Margaret Churchward, business woman

  Margaret was born in her family's Nelson Street home in Blenheim in 1915, as the only child of William and Lucy Churchward. William was a well known lawyer...

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• Bickleen Fong, author

  Ng Bickleen Fong (1931-1998) “This country is no longer a place of sojourn, but my home.” bickleen Bickleen Fong. Image supplied by author Bickleen Fong was born in Canton, coming to...

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