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Katherine Wilson Sheppard ( née Catherine Wilson Malcolm; 10 March 1848 – 13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand and the country's most famous suffragist. Born in Liverpool, England, she emigrated to New Zealand with her family in 1868.
26 de abr. de 2024 · Kate Sheppard, English-born activist, who was a leader in the woman suffrage movement in New Zealand. She was instrumental in making New Zealand the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote (1893). Learn more about Sheppard’s life and career.
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Kate Sheppard was a social activist and an important leader of the women’s suffrage movement in New Zealand. This biography profiles her childhood, life, career, achievements and timeline.
2 de abr. de 2014 · In 1925, Sheppard married an old friend, William Sidney Lovell-Smith. Their union lasted four years, until his passing in 1929. A year later, Sheppard's only granddaughter, Margaret, died.
21 de abr. de 2022 · Born in Liverpool in 1847, Kate Malcolm migrated to Christchurch in her early twenties and in 1871 married merchant Walter Sheppard. In 1885 she joined the new Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), which advocated women’s suffrage as a means to fight for liquor prohibition.
26 de mai. de 2000 · Early in her married life, Sheppard was active in the church and in the temperance movement. At the same time the social climate in New Zealand was maturing in terms of gender balance, urbanisation and industrialisation.
17 de set. de 2021 · And what of the rumours surrounding Sheppard’s friendship with William Lovell-Smith, who she married towards the end of her life after the death of his wife Jenny? Her private life hints at mystery and suggests a woman advancing new ways of co-habiting.
