Rachel Reynolds

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Rachel Reynolds

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Background

Rachel Selina Reynolds (née Pinkerton) (1838-1928) was an active social worker and community leader in a wide range of social justice causes involving access of women to education, provision of welfare services to poor and needy people as well as being active in the women's suffrage movement. In the 1860s she lobbied for the establishment of a girls' secondary school, resulting in the opening of Otago Girls' High School in 1871. She was also active in encouraging the University of Otago to admit women students, a goal that was realised in 1871. She ran projects providing welfare services to poor and needy people, devoting a large amount of time addressing the needs of women and children. Her work lead to the opening of New Zealand's first free kindergarten in 1889 and she later became president of the Dunedin Free Kindergarten Association. In the 1880s and early 1890s, Rachel was active in the women's suffrage movement and became vice-president of a women's franchise league formed in Dunedin in 1892, which provided a non-temperance lobby in favour of women's vote.

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Historical or notable people

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Female

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