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" |
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Edited by Flora S. Eldershaw |
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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 |
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Literary Sub-committee: Dame Mary Gilmore, Dora Wilcox, Miles Franklin, Marjorie Barnard, Flora Eldershaw |
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Natonal Library of Australia's HHP 4929 copy signed, Flora S. Eldershaw. ANL |
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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.
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Pioneers -- Australia.
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Women artists -- Australia -- Biography.
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Women authors -- Biography.
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Women pioneers -- Australia -- Biography.
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Women pioneers -- Australia -- History.
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Women -- Australia -- Biography.
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Women -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Australia -- History.
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Women -- Australia -- 1788-1938
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Women -- Australia.
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SUBJECT |
Australia -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114302
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Australia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Author |
Eldershaw, Flora, 1897-1956.
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Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations Women's Advisory Council
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Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations Women's Executive Committee
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LC no. |
81042739 |
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