Peryman, Nellie
Person
Biography
Nellie Peryman was a teacher, woman's suffrage campaigner and editor of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union newspaper, “The White Ribbon” of Jewish decent. She was among the women gathering signatures for the suffrage petition and voted in the 1893 election.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Suffrage year 1993 papers
Collection
Identifier: CCL Archive 0810
Scope and Contents
Papers collected for Suffrage Year 1993 including newsletters and calendars of events. Includes a photocopy of How we won the franchise in New Zealand, by Nellie Peryman, 1924 (previously attributed to Kate Sheppard) as well as copies of The White ribbon from 1925, 1943 and 1945. There is a copy of Margaret Copland's Including Women, 1992, and of Women about town: women of early Christchurch, an illustrated pamphlet produced by the Christchurch Branch of the Society for Research...
Dates:
1924-1993