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Women’s Institutes across New Zealand will celebrate the establishment’s 100-year anniversary this weekend, and the organisation’s North Otago Federation will be no different.
On Sunday, 40 Women’s Institute groups will honour Anna Elizabeth Jerome Spencer, who founded New Zealand’s first Women’s Institute in 1921.
As part of the celebrations, a sculpture of Miss Jerome Spencer will be unveiled in Napier, where the institute’s first meeting was held.
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âLifting Horizons: Anne Elizabeth Jerome Spencer, a biographyâ is a book about the remarkable life of the founder of New Zealand Womenâs Institutes, written by EIT Research Professor Kay Morris Matthews.
The book chronicles the life of the founder of the New Zealand Womenâs Institutes, Jerome Spencer, known as Bessie to her friends and family.
The book, which took three years to research and write, touches on all aspects of a woman ahead of her time.
Born into privilege in 1872, Bessie was the daughter of Dr William Spencer, the original doctor and surgeon of Napier, who also served as the cityâs mayor. She was a foundation year pupil at Napier Girlsâ High School. The first local woman to gain a university degree, she taught at the school and was 29 years of age when she became headmistress, leading Napier Girlsâ from 1901 to 1909.
Napier's Bessie Spencer - the remarkable "forward thinking proto-feminist" who founded our Women's Institutes
13 Feb, 2021 09:08 PM
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A bronze cast statue of Anna Elizabeth Jerome Spencer (known to her friends as Bessie), born in Napier in 1872, has now been unveiled on the corner of Shakespeare Rd and Browning St.
A bronze cast statue of Anna Elizabeth Jerome Spencer (known to her friends as Bessie), born in Napier in 1872, has now been unveiled on the corner of Shakespeare Rd and Browning St.
The Napier-born founder of the New Zealand Federation of Women's Institutes has been remembered as a "remarkable woman" and "forward thinking proto-feminist".