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Did a tragic family secret influence Kate Sheppard's mission to give New Zealand women the vote?

  • Written by Katie Pickles, Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, University of Canterbury
Did a tragic family secret influence Kate Sheppard's mission to give New Zealand women the vote?Kate Sheppard (seated at centre) with the National Council of Women in Christchurch. 1896.

The family of pioneering New Zealand suffragist Kate Sheppard kept an important secret – one that possibly explains a lot about her life, her beliefs and her motivation.

The secret involved her father, Andrew Wilson Malcolm, and what happened to him...

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