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32. Alison Prentice, ‘Workers, Professionals, Pilgrims: Tracing Canadian Women Teachers’ Histories’, in Telling Women’s Lives: Narrative Inquiries in the History of Women’s Education, ed. Kathleen Weiler and Sue Middleton (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1999), 37.

33. Kathleen Weiler, ‘Reflections on Writing a History of Women Teachers’, in Telling Women’s Lives: Narrative Inquiries in the History of Women’s Education, ed. Kathleen Weiler and Sue Middleton (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1999), 57. See also Kathleen Weiler, ‘Remembering and Representing Life Choices: A Critical Perspective on Teachers’ Oral History Narratives’, Qualitative Studies in Education 5, no. 1 (1992): 39–50. The work of Carolyn Steedman—Dust: The Archive and Cultural History (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002)—presents a critique of archives and the storage and retrieval of material for and about women.

34. Martha Howell and Walter Previenier, From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001).

35. Tanya Fitzgerald, ‘Archives of Memory and Memories of Archives: CMS Women’s Letters and Dairies 1823–1835’, History of Education 34, no. 6 (2005): 657–674.

36. Seth Koven, ‘Borderlands: Women, Voluntary Action and Child Welfare in Britain, 1840–1914’, in Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States, ed. Seth Koven and Sonya Michel (London: Routledge, 1993), 95.

37. Liz Stanley, ‘From “Self-Made Women” to “Women Made-Selves”? Audit Selves, Simulation and Surveillance in the Rise of the Public Woman’, in Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods, ed. Tess Cosslett (London: Routledge, 2000), 57.

38. Finkelstein, ‘Revealing Human Agency’; Ribbens, ‘Fact or Fictions?’

39. For an examination of the early years of home science at Otago, see Collins, ‘Beyond the Domestic Sphere?’

40. Heath McDonald, ‘Boys-Smith, Winifred Lily 1865–1939’, in Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, last modified 22 June 2007, accessed 22 July 2008, http://www.dnzb.govt.nz. Boys-Smith attended Girton from 1891 to 1895. Because women were not granted degrees at that time, she merely received a certificate. In 1906 she was awarded a Frances Mary Buss Memorial Travelling Scholarship to study in the United States.

41. For a biography of the first four women professors at the University of New Zealand, see Fitzgerald, Outsiders or Equals?

42. Collins, ‘Beyond the Domestic Sphere?’