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Author Eldershaw, Flora S. (Flora Sydney), 1897-1956

Title The Peaceful army : a memorial to the pioneer women of Australia, 1788-1938
Published Sydney : Women's Executive Committee and Advisory Council of Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations, 1938
Sydney : A.W. Baker

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  994.00992 Pea  AVAILABLE
 ADPML SPC  994.00992 Pea  LIB USE ONLY
Description 138 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Contents Foreword / Her Excellency, Lady Gowrie -- Foreword / Lady Wakehurst -- Foreword / Flora S. Eldershaw -- Memorial Ode (poem) / Mary Gilmore -- Elizabeth MacArthur, the happy pioneer / M. Barnard Eldershaw -- Jenny (poem) / Dora Wilcox -- Mary Reibey / Dymphna Cusack -- Release (poem) / Dorothea Mackeller -- Caroline Chisholm and her times / Eleanor Dark -- Australia is so modern - Sesquicentenary, London, Australia (poem) / Helen Simpson -- "A Group of Noble Dames" -- Rose Scott: some aspects of her personality and work / Miles Franklin -- The Woman of the House (poem) / Olive Hopegood -- Some Pioneer Women Writers / Winifred Birkett -- Some Pioneer Women Artists / Margaret Preston -- Snow in London (poem) / Kathleen Monypenny -- Pioneering Still Goes On / Kylie Tennant -- Women's Executive Committee and Advisory Council
Notes "...published for The Women's Executive Committee and Advisory Council of Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations, 1938"
Edited by Flora S. Eldershaw
Issued in hardback with gold stamped boards and in paperback with stiff grey wrappers. The hardback has a colour frontispiece of a water colour sketch by R. K. Harris of the Memorial Garden to Pioneer Men and Women, 1788-1938, Botanical Gardens, Sydney. The paperback frontispiece is a black and white reproduction of a view of Sydney Cove in 1788
Literary Sub-committee: Dame Mary Gilmore, Dora Wilcox, Miles Franklin, Marjorie Barnard, Flora Eldershaw
Natonal Library of Australia's HHP 4929 copy signed, Flora S. Eldershaw. ANL
Digital master available. FERG/5048 copy ;
Issuing Body "Published for the Women's Executive Committee and Advisory Council of Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations"--verso contents p
Subject Pioneers -- Australia -- Biography.
Pioneers -- Australia.
Women artists -- Australia -- Biography.
Women authors -- Biography.
Women pioneers -- Australia -- Biography.
Women pioneers -- Australia -- History.
Women -- Australia -- Biography.
Women -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Australia -- History.
Women -- Australia -- 1788-1938
Women -- Australia.
SUBJECT Australia -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114302
Australia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author Eldershaw, Flora, 1897-1956.
Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations Women's Advisory Council
Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations Women's Executive Committee
LC no. 81042739