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Biography: Muller, Mary Anne

Mary Muller, about 1898

A black and white studio portrait of Mary Muller as an older woman, seated and in profile.

Mary Muller, in about 1898, in her late seventies. When this photograph was reproduced in the White Ribbon magazine in 1898, Kate Sheppard wrote of Mary that she ‘may be fitly termed the Pioneer Woman Suffragist of New Zealand’.

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How to cite this page

Raewyn Dalziel. 'Muller, Mary Anne', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2023. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/765/mary-muller-about-1898 (accessed 4 June 2026).