Skip to Content

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Manawatū/Horowhenua campaign for women's voting rights in the 1890s was led by a group of passionate advocates. These included Learmonth White Dalrymple, Margaret Giesen, her daughter Edith Giesen, Mary Alice Sorley, Clara Lethbridge, Minnie Leary, Mary Butters and Elizabeth Esther Dillon. When the local branches of the women's run Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) were formed, a number of husbands offered support. The WCTU main objective was temperance, which was addressed through the lens of other women's issues, including obtaining the vote.

Identification

Object type
Image
Digitisation ID
2022Pa_IMCA-DigitalArchive_040175
Title
Back Issues: The fight for women's votes
Relation
Manawatū Standard
Format
Born Digital
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive
Content type
Born digital

Related items

Back Issues: The MCC and the cricketing engine driver
Back Issues: Fall and rise of Feilding's town clock
Back Issues: Welcome to Papaioea
Palmerston North Choral Society - Women's Suffrage Centennial concert
Back Issues: Carless days: Memories of an earlier fuel crises
Palmerston North election results for Councillors
Planting of “Kate Sheppard” camellias, 2018
McDonald family on Election Day
Palmerston North election results for Mayor
Crowds await 1938 Election Results
Children at The Lakelet
View of The Square, c 1915

Creation

Created By
Place
Manawatū
Date
September 17, 2022

Object rights

Credit Line
Fairfax

Taxonomy

Tags
back issues,
manawatu standard,
vote,
women's christian temperance union,
women's suffrage,
Community Tags

Report a problem

Related items

Back Issues: The MCC and the cricketing engine driver
Back Issues: Fall and rise of Feilding's town clock
Back Issues: Welcome to Papaioea
Palmerston North Choral Society - Women's Suffrage Centennial concert
Back Issues: Carless days: Memories of an earlier fuel crises
Palmerston North election results for Councillors
Planting of “Kate Sheppard” camellias, 2018
McDonald family on Election Day
Palmerston North election results for Mayor
Crowds await 1938 Election Results
Children at The Lakelet
View of The Square, c 1915

User comments