Helen Mary WilsonOBE (née Ostler; 4 May 1869 – 16 April 1957) was a New Zealand teacher, farmer, community leader and writer. She was born in Oamaru, New Zealand, in 1869.[1]
Interviewed for a radio program during the 1950s, Wilson recalled the process involved for women in New Zealand in obtaining the right to vote and also discussed the Married Women's Property Act.[4]
Booksedit
Wilson was the author of several books, including the autobiography My First Eighty Years.[2] This book is regarded as a New Zealand classic.[5]
Personal lifeedit
Wilson spent several years in the North Island town of Levin with her mother, prominent businesswoman and women's suffrage campaigner Emma Ostler.[5] Helen Wilson married politician Charles Kendall Wilson on 16 May 1892.[6] She lived for most of her adult life in Piopio in the Waitomo district of the North Island. She moved to Hamilton in 1942.
Referencesedit
^"Helen Wilson: The status of women", in "Women, the Vote and Equality" (audio recording). Wellington, New Zealand: Radio New Zealand.
^ ab"My First Eighty Years by Helen Wilson - AbeBooks". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
^"Honours list". Nelson Evening Mail. 11 May 1937. p. 5. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
^"Helen Wilson: The status of women", Radio New Zealand.
^ abTaonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Wilson, Helen Mary". www.teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
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