Kate Sheppard is considered to be an important figure in New Zealand's history.

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Since 1992 her profile has featured on the New Zealand ten-dollar note.[105][106]
[107] A 2005 television show New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers ranked Sheppard
as the second most influential New Zealander of all time.[108] Similarly, The New
Zealand Herald selected Sheppard as one of their ten greatest New Zealanders in
2013.[109]

In 1972, Patricia Grimshaw's book Women's Suffrage in New Zealand identified

Sheppard as the leading figure of the suffrage movement. This was the first
acclaimed book to do so and its publication marked a growth in recognition of Kate
Sheppard's life and activism.[110]

In 1993, the centenary of women's suffrage in New Zealand, a group of Christchurch

women established two memorials to Sheppard: the Kate Sheppard National Memorial,
on the banks of the Avon River, and the Kate Sheppard Memorial Trust Award, an
annual award to women in research.[111] That year a special paeony-style white
camellia was created at Camellia Glen Nurseries in Kaupokonui, Taranaki; white
camellias were a symbol of the suffragists. It was named after Kate Sheppard and
planted extensively throughout New Zealand.[112]

The Fendalton house at 83 Clyde Road, where the Sheppards lived from 1888 to 1902
and now known as the Kate Sheppard House, is registered by Heritage New Zealand as
a Category I heritage building, in view of the many events relevant to women's
suffrage which happened there.[113] It was here that Sheppard pasted together the
three main petitions onto sheets of wallpaper.[114]

New Zealand playwright Mervyn Thompson wrote the play O! Temperance! about Sheppard
and the temperance movement. It was first performed in 1972 at Christchurch's Court
Theatre.[115] In 2016 and 2017, the production That Bloody Woman, which re-imagined
Kate Sheppard's life as a punk rock musical, toured New Zealand.[116][117]

Sheppard on a pedestrian signal outside the Parliament Buildings in Wellington

Kate Sheppard Place, located within Wellington's parliament precinct, is named in
her honour; it is a short one-way street running from Molesworth Street opposite
Parliament House to the intersection of Mulgrave Street and Thorndon Quay. There is
a Kate Sheppard Avenue in the Auckland suburb of Northcross. In 2014, eight
intersections near Parliament in Wellington were fitted with green pedestrian
lights depicting Kate Sheppard.[118]

Several New Zealand schools have houses named after Sheppard.[e] In 2014, Whangarei
Girls' High School renamed a house that was named after Richard Seddon, an opponent
of women's suffrage, to Sheppard House at the request of a student.[122]

On 8 March 2018, coinciding with International Women's Day and in celebration of

the 125th anniversary of the women's suffrage movement, New Zealand Football
renamed its premier knockout association football tournament the Kate Sheppard Cup.
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Works
Sheppard, Kate (17 May 2017) [1888]. "Ten Reasons Why the Women of New Zealand
Should Vote". New Zealand History. New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
Retrieved 13 February 2018.
Should women vote? (1890)
Sheppard, Kate (nd) [1924]. "How we won the franchise in New Zealand". New Zealand
History. New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union. p. 7. Retrieved 22 June
2018.
Woman Suffrage in New Zealand (1907)
Woman's suffrage petition 1892
"1893 women's suffrage petition". New Zealand History. Wellington, New Zealand: New
Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. nd [28 July 1893]. Retrieved 13 February
2018.
See also
List of suffragists and suffragettes
Timeline of women's suffrage