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• Introducing the Women's Suffrage Petition

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  This eBook is part of a series introducing different events through New Zealand's history. It contains information about the petition itself, what it is, when it was signed, what it says, who signed it, and what happened to it, and also…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Women's Studies Collection

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  The Women's Studies Collection provides online access to the history of New Zealand women, and a series of ground-breaking books on women's issues, lives and histories. The Collection includes key works on politics, economics and feminism.

• The Women's Suffrage Petition

  Te Petihana Whakamana Pōti Wahine, 1893

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  Part of the Women's Studies Collection. This e-book contains a good introduction to the social and political background to the petition, as well as copies of the 1893 petition itself. Local content includes biographies of many women who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A History of New Zealand Women

  Brookes, Barbara L. (Barbara Lesley), 1955-

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  Part of the Women's Studies Collection. Chapter five - 'The quest for citizenship, 1885–1890s', is all about women's suffrage and the years leading up to the suffrage petition.

• The Vote, the Pill and the Demon Drink

  a History of Feminist Writing in New Zealand, 1869–1993

  Macdonald, Charlotte

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  Part of the Women's Studies Collection. Chapter one is an excellent background to the beginning of women's rights in Aotearoa. Chapter two covers 1885–1905​ around the time of the suffrage campaign, looking at how the temperance movement…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Woman of Good Character

  Single Women as Immigrant Settlers in Nineteenth Century New Zealand

  Macdonald, Charlotte

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  Part of the Women's Studies Collection. This book describes what life was like for single women before the women's suffrage campaign.

• Women Together

  Ngā Rōpū Wāhine O Te Motu

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  A History of Women's Organisations in New Zealand : Ngā Rōpū Wāhine O Te Motu. This website includes information about local Christchurch organisations that were involved in suffrage, such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Leading the Way

  How New Zealand Women Won the Vote

  Hutching, Megan

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  This eBook looks at what was happening in Aotearoa (and the world) that led to the suffrage campaign. It puts into context a number of important people and organisations who were involved in the fight for women's suffrage. Though it covers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women's Suffrage in New Zealand

  Grimshaw, Patricia, 1938-

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  This eBook covers what happened before, during and after the suffrage campaign in Aotearoa, and is available as an eBook through both Overdrive/Libby and Wheelers.

• Kate Sheppard, 1847-1934

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  This is Christchurch City Libraries' biography of Kate Sheppard, Ōtautahi Christchurch local and the leader of the fight for women's suffrage in Aotearoa New Zealand. A good starting point if you are researching her life and the journey…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Convention Called by the Canterbury Women's Institute Which Resulted in the Formation of the National Council of the Women of New Zealand

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  In 1896, women from all over the country met in Christchurch, called by the Canterbury Women's Institute, and formed the National Council of Women. This was an organisation set up to help women achieve equality in all areas of life after…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Public Notice for a Meeting on the Present and Outlook of Woman's Suffrage to Be Held at the Oddfellows Hall, Lichfield Street, Chch

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  This is a notice that appeared in the Christchurch Press the year before women won the right to vote. Public meetings like this were one of the techniques women used to spread the word about the fight for suffrage. [Primary source.]

• The Late Sir John Hall, K.C.M.G.

  Former Sheep Farmer, Statesman and Premier, Sir John Hall, K.C.M.G., Died at His Residence Park Terrace, Christchurch on 25 June 1907. He Was in His Eight-second Year

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  Sir John Hall was a local Cantabrian, a politician, and an important advocate in Parliament for women's rights. He was the leader of the parliamentary campaign for women's suffrage, and he and Kate Sheppard had a long and successful…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Some Members of the Atalanta Club

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  The Atalanta Cycling Club was formed in Ōtautahi Christchurch in 1892 and many of its members such as Alice Burn were also involved in the campaign for women's suffrage and rational dress. [Primary source.]

• The Atalanta Ladies' Cycling Club

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  The Atalanta Cycling Club was formed in Ōtautahi Christchurch in 1892 and many of its members were also involved in the campaign for women's suffrage and rational dress. [Primary source.]

• Canterbury Stories - Suffrage

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  Canterbury Stories is Christchurch City Libraries' place for collecting and presenting online collections from our digitised archives, publications, photographs and community. Canterbury Stories includes material from Photo Hunts,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Canterbury Stories - Enfranchisement Movement

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  A series of cartoons originally published around 1893, then republished in the Christchurch Star on the 90th anniversary of women gaining the vote in 1983. [Primary source]

• Notes on dress reform and what it implies

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  This digitised pamphlet was published in Christchurch in 1893 and links dress reform with the movement for women's emancipation. Author Kate Walker (an Ōtautahi Christchurch local) who married James Wilkinson in 1894, was possibly the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The New Zealand Wheelman

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  In the 1890s, women from Ōtautahi Christchurch began riding bicycles, which gave them more person freedom, started the campaign for 'dress reform/rational dress', and ties in with the emancipation movement. The New Zealand Wheelman was a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Podcast – Suffrage 125

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  Christchurch City Libraries blog hosts a series of regular podcasts from New Zealand's only specialist human rights radio show Speak up - Kōrerotia. In 2018 it was 125 years since Aotearoa New Zealand became the first country to allow…Read moreRead more of this annotation