Lorna Sharp interviewed by Criena Fitzgerald [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5158952
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Sharp, Lorna, 1934-, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2011
- 3 sound files (ca. 139 min.)
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Online.
- Summary:
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Lorna Sharp, born in Gnowangerup, Western Australia (1934), discusses her father's experiences in WW1; her father being a 'soldier settler' and being allocated land at Jerramungup (1920); her mother and siblings; the farm and its buildings; the Depression; domestic hardships; her father's death (1939); moving to Albany; schooling; WW2; moving to Kalgoorlie (1946); her and her family's various employments; expected careers for girls; descriptions of Kalgoorlie; her mother's death; nurse training at Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital; the facilities and her duties; waitressing; bookkeeping; women's wages; widow's pensions; marriage and children; her husband's employments; accommodation; transport; domestic finances; self-sufficiency; alcoholism and gambling; domestic chores, tools and routine.
Sharp discusses entertaining friends; illness; studying to be a real estate agent; the real estate business and laws in Kalgoorlie at that time; being the first woman real estate officer in Kalgoorlie; her husband's reaction to her work; buying properties; business difficulties; mentors; her relationship with the business community in Kalgoorlie; her current business and employees; women in real estate today; grief; the effect of the resources boom on Kalgoorlie; a description of Kalgoorlie and its inhabitants today; learning to drive; reflections on women in education and paid employment; completing an Accounting Degree; political involvement; her enjoyment of the real estate business.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 7 April 2011 in Kalgoorlie, W.A.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (7 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 90 leaves) available.
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Real estate agents
- Other authors/contributors:
- Fitzgerald, Criena, interviewer
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2081 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2011
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