Author(s): Margaret Lovell-Smith

Biographies & Memoirs

When Helen Connon received her Masters of Arts degree from the University of New Zealand in1881, she became the first woman in the British empire to get an honours degree. This study of Helen Connon's life sheds new light on her early life, her professional career and her marriage. Above all, it explains how an obscure carpenter's daughter came to be at the cutting edge of educational achievements for women in the nineteenth century.