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Biography: Greaves, Mary Ann

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Bibliography

Macdonald, C. 'The "social evil": prostitution and the passage of the Contagious Diseases Act (1869)'. In Women in history. Ed. B. Brookes et al. Wellington, 1986

Robinson, J. 'Canterbury's rowdy women: whores, madonnas and female criminality'. NZ Women's Studies Journal 1, No 1 (1984): 6--25

Robinson, J. 'Of diverse persons, men and women and whores: women and crime in nineteenth century Canterbury'. MA thesis, Canterbury, 1983

How to cite this page

Jan Jordan. 'Greaves, Mary Ann', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1993. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/126899/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).