![]() ![]() ![]() was created as part of Suffrage 125, which commemorated 125 years since women won the right to vote in New Zealand. ![]() This selection should be seen as a representative sample only. Its author, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, who lived in New Zealand and spent many years teaching Maori children, found that Maoris taught according to British methods were not learning to read. There are thousands of wonderful women in Aotearoa whose contributions to their communities have gone unrecognised. TEACHER was first published in 1963 to excited acclaim. Our single requirement was that they must appear in our online collection. The 1960s saw three further novels, Incense to Idols (Ashton-Warner. To honour those Suffragists and look to the future, this exhibition celebrates many of our most illustrious, revolutionary, courageous, inspirational, empowering, luminous, innovative and influential women.įrom Te Puea Hērangi to Lorde, from weavers to war heroes, Standing on the Shoulders… celebrates a diverse range of women, as well as showcasing the breadth of material in our collections of archived radio, television and film.įor our curators, selecting the women was the single hardest task in the creation of the exhibition. the American version of her teaching scheme in the form of the celebrated book. The women of Aotearoa New Zealand gained the right to vote in September 1893, after a hard-fought campaign and several massive, nationwide petitions. ![]()
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