Māori and Pākehā Women of the WCTU
The women with whom Mary Clement Leavitt met during her 1885 organising tour of New Zealand included both white (Pākehā) … Continue reading Māori and Pākehā Women of the WCTU
The women with whom Mary Clement Leavitt met during her 1885 organising tour of New Zealand included both white (Pākehā) … Continue reading Māori and Pākehā Women of the WCTU
My presentation – slides and notes – given for the Aotearoa Gender History Network on 5 April 2023 My hypothesis … Continue reading NZ in 1880s-90s featured a bicultural women’s movement of international importance
The archivist and two scholars at the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Museum and Archives in Illinois are preparing a … Continue reading Proposal for book chapter in WCTU at 150 year commemoration
Transcribed from a microfilm of The Auckland Weekly News (3 January 1885) in the Auckland Central Library. Found in the … Continue reading The Model Wife is Dead, 1885
The same year of Mary Clement Leavitt’s travels through New Zealand, there were many men who were also campaigning for … Continue reading Leavitt’s Public Speaking Skills
Annie Jane Allen Schnackenberg (1835-1905) was one of the most interesting people who took a leadership role in the fledgling … Continue reading Schnackenberg
When Mary Clement Leavitt arrived in New Zealand in January 1885, she had a clear sense of how her work … Continue reading WCTU organisational structure
In 1910, Helen Yule Geddes Dewar (1834-1931) wrote in The White Ribbon of her memories of meeting Mary Clement Leavitt, … Continue reading Leavitt and meeting New Zealand women in Auckland in January 1885
It’s time to start blogging about this project, if only as a way to help me focus on what I’m … Continue reading Finding a long-lost face – Anne Ward
Hope you enjoy my journey – I will use the blog to describe in real time when I walk in … Continue reading Kia ora