Description |
268 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm |
Contents |
Marian Ellis Rowan : Australia's first woman artist to hold one-woman exhibitions and promote herself overseas -- Julia Guerin, Maybanke Anderson, Eliza Fewings, Vida Lahey, Ethel Raybould : outstanding teachers and educational reformers -- Dagmar Berne, Constance Stone, Helen Sexton, Agnes Bennett, Lucy Gullett, Lilian Cooper : female pioneers in medicine -- Elizabeth Kenny : who gave hope to polio victims -- Claire Trestrail : War heroine -- Ella Simon : survivor of the stolen generation and Australia's first Aboriginal justice of the peace -- Kundaibark : healer of the Biripi people -- Emma Minnie Boyd : talented founder of a dynasty of painters and sculptors -- Louisa Lawson: Australia's first female publisher, crusader for women's independence -- Sarah Frances 'Fanny' Durack : first female swimmer to win Olympic gold -- Annette Kellerman : Aussie battler who became a Hollywood star -- Edith Dircksey Cowan : first Australian woman to sit in a state parliament -- Jane Sutherland and Margaret Sutherland : outstanding women in art and music -- tBrettena Smyth and Lillie Goodisson : pioneers of family planning |
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Selina Murray Sutherland : pioneer of social reform and the abolition of child prostitution -- Joan Mavis Rosanove (Lazarus) : Australian women fight for the right to practise law on equal terms with their male colleagues -- Florence Mary Taylor : Australia's first female architect |
Summary |
Includes: Marian Ellis Rowan; Julia Guerin; Maybanke Anderson; Eliza Fewings; Vida Lahey; Ethel Raybould; Dagmar Berne; Constance Stone; Helen Sexton; Agnes Bennett; Lucy Gullett; Lilian Cooper; Elizabeth Kenny; Claire Trestrail; Ella Simon; Kundaibark; (Emma) Minnie Boyd; Louisa Lawson; Sarah Frances [Fanny] Durack; Annette Kellerman; Edith Cowan; Jane Sutherland; Margaret Sutherland; Brettena Smyth; Lillie Goodisson; Selina Sutherland; Joan Rosanove; Florence Taylor |
Analysis |
Biography |
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Feminism |
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Feminism - Australia - Biography |
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Feminism - Australia - History |
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History |
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Professions |
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Women |
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Women - Australia - Biography |
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Women - Australia - History |
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Women - Australia - Social conditions |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Anderson, Maybanke, 1845-1927.
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Bennett, Agnes, 1872-1960
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Berne, Dagmar, 1865-1900
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Boyd, Emma Minnie, 1858-1936.
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Cooper, Lilian, 1861-1947
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Cowan, Edith Dircksey, 1861-1932.
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Durack, Sarah Frances (Fanny), 1890-1956
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Fewings, Eliza, 1857-1927
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Goodisson, Lillie, 1860-1947
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Guerin, Julia (Bella), 1858-1923
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Gullett, Lucy, 1876-1949
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Kellermann, Annette, 1886-1975.
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Kenny, Elizabeth, 1886-1952.
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Kundaibark
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Lahey, Vida, 1882-1968.
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Lawson, Louisa, 1848-1920.
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Raybould, Ethel Harriet, 1899-1987
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Rosanove, Joan Mavis, 1896-1974
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Rowan, Ellis, 1848-1922.
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Sexton, Helen, 1862-1950
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Stone, Constance, 1856-1902.
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Smyth, Brettena, 1840-1898
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Simon, Ella, 1902-
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Sutherland, Jane, 1855-1928
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Sutherland, M. (Margaret), 1897-1984.
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Sutherland, Selina Murray, 1839-1909
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Taylor, Florence Mary, 1879-1969
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Trestrail, Claire, 1889-1960
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Feminism -- Australia -- Biography.
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Feminism -- Australia
-- ?́ƠBiography
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Feminism -- Australia -- History.
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Feminists -- Australia -- Biography.
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Women artists -- Australia -- Biography.
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Women -- Australia
-- ?́ƠBiography
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Women -- Australia -- Biography.
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Women -- Australia -- History.
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Women -- Australia -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Australia.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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LC no. |
99182548 |
ISBN |
0732267846 |
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