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Kate Sheppard
Sign in to saveAlso known as Katherine Wilson Sheppard, Catherine Wilson Sheppard, Katherine Wilson "Kate" Sheppard, Catherine Wilson Malcolm, Katherine Wilson Lovell-Smith
prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage (1848–1934)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 42
Top works
- Ditty Photocopy Masters New Edition 2025
- Cruel Kings and Mean Queens
- I Am a Tree
- I Live in a Mad House
- MON CARNET DE L'AMITIE
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,720x
- Array programming with NumPy
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- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,326x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,795x
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Quotes
- “Is it right that your mother, your sister... should be classed with criminals and lunatics... ? Is it right that while the gambler, the drunkard, and even the wife-beater has a vote, earnest, educated and refined women are denied it?... Is it right... that a mother... should be thought unworthy of a vote that is freely given to the blasphemer, the liar, the seducer,and the profligate?”
- “In Wellington is every year assembled a National Council of men, which holds a session lasting several months... From that Council women are excluded. … Under these circumstances a National Council which largely represents the thinking and working women of the colony (and which, it may be remarked, costs the country nothing) becomes a necessity. I trust the day is not far distant … when the necessity for men's councils and women's councils, as such, will be swept away.”
- “All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.”
- “We are tired of having a 'sphere' doled out to us, and of being told that anything outside that sphere is 'unwomanly'. We want to be natural just for a change … we must be ourselves at all risks.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Catherine Wilson Malcolm , ( 1848-03-10 ) 10 March 1848, Liverpool , England
- Died
- 13 July 1934 (1934-07-13) (aged 86), Christchurch , New Zealand
- Monuments
- Kate Sheppard National Memorial
- Other name
- Katherine Wilson Malcolm
- Known for
- Women's suffrage
- Spouses
- Walter Allen Sheppard ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 21 July 1871</span>"}]]}'>1871 ; died 1915 ) William Lovell-Smith ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1925 )
- Relatives
- Isabella May (sister)
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Mrs. K. W. Sheppard (cropped).jpg
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- Kate Sheppard
- date of birth
- 1847-03-10
- date of death
- 1934-07-13
- birth name
- Catherine Lopez garcia
- nickname
- Kate
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- Mariana Crow
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Katherine Wilson Sheppard (born Catherine Wilson Malcolm; 10 March 1848 – 13 July 1934) was a New Zealand suffragist known for organising the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition which resulted in New Zealand becoming the first country to establish universal suffrage.
Born in Liverpool, England, she emigrated to New Zealand with her family in 1868. There she became an active member of various religious and social organisations, including the Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand (WCTU NZ). In 1887 she was appointed the WCTU NZ's National Superintendent for Franchise and Legislation, a position she used to advance the cause of women's suffrage in New Zealand.