She was born on the twenty-third of April in1849 in Briton Ferry (Wales).

Eveline Willet Cunnington was a New Zealand social reformer, feminist, lecturer and writer.

She went to Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1875 and she got married with Capel Baines. Suddenly she died and she was alone with their children. Her second husband was Herbert James Cunnington.

Eveline was in the first meeting of the Canterbury Women's Institute and in 1895 became a prison visitor. She was a founding member of the National Council of Women of New Zealand and of the Canterbury Fabian Society.

Much of her activism concerned girls and young women; she campaigned for changes in women's prisons and the education of prisoners. She even gave clothes and accommodation to young women released from prison and often let them live in her home.

Her works were published in 1918 after her death.

She died on the 30th of July in 1916.

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