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Fraser (later Johnston; 11 December 1866 – 31 August 1951) was a New Zealand domestic servant and letter-writer. Born in Scotland, she emigrated with her brother in 1887, following two brothers who had gone to New Zealand earlier that decade. She was hoping for the remainder of her family to come out
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A number of entries were added to make the dictionary more representative of population covered, boosting the numbers of women, Māori, and other minority groups. A number of these are not based on secondary sources, as encyclopaedias traditionally are, but instead on primary sources, because no
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but when that did not happen, she started financially supporting them by sending money to Scotland. After many years as a domestic servant, she married in 1899 and had a farm with her husband, bringing up four children. They retired to
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to mark the 125th anniversary of women's suffrage in New Zealand. Subsequent rounds will illuminate the lives of significant and representative people from a cross-section of New Zealand society, with a focus on the decades after 1960.
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in December 2010. In 2017 the Ministry for Culture and Heritage announced a 'new phase' in the life of the DNZB, with the addition of an essay about the Polynesian navigator
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as Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage launched the online version of the DNZB on 19 February 2002. The online version was first promoted by
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These later volumes made a conscious effort to move towards a more representative view of New Zealand with greater female and
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This article is about the encyclopedia first published in 1990. It is not to be confused with the
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and after her husband's death, she lived with her daughter and grandchildren for another decade.
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Nielsine Paget (21 July 1858 – 13 July 1932) was a homemaker and community worker in southern
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Jones, Lawrence (2001). "Dictionary of New Zealand Biography". In Jolly, Margaretta (ed.).
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Work on the current version of the DNZB was started in 1983 under the editorship of
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Finnie (c.1822–?) was a prostitute. She was born in Scotland in circa 1822.
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Weldon (1829–1882) was a prostitute and character. She was born in
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Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms
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of 1966, which had 900 biographies. The dictionary is managed by the
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information page on the Ministry for Culture and Heritage site
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Index

DNZB
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (1940)

W. H. Oliver
Claudia Orange
English
Māori
biography
Encyclopedia
also available on-line
encyclopedia
biographical dictionary
New Zealanders
Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
New Zealand Government
earlier work of the same name in two volumes
Guy Scholefield
W. H. Oliver
Claudia Orange
Māori
Sybil Audrey Marie Lupp
Amy Johnston
Mary Jane Innes
Alice Woodward Horsley
Nora Mary Crawford
Joseph Zillwood
Edward Raymond Horton
diarists

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