Autographed note from Jessie Street, 1945
- Bib ID:
- 7796618
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Street, Jessie, 1889-1970
- Access Conditions:
- Available for research. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- [1945]
- 0.03 m (1 folder)
- Summary:
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Autographed note signed [1945]. To an unnamed writer [Jean Devanny]. 'Many thanks for lending me "Bird Of Paradise". I appreciated your chapter on myself - I am glad to know how people like yourself felt about me'.
- Biography/History:
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Feminist and social activist. Jessie Mary Grey Street (née Lillingston) was born in India in 1889. In 1915 Street founded the New South Wales Social Hygiene Association, concerned with informing women about birth control and sex education. In 1929 she was elected first president of the United Associations of Women which lobbied governments on equal pay and other women's issues. She accompanied H.V. Evatt to the United Nations founding conference held in 1945 in San Franscisco where she successfully lobbied for a charter of women's rights. She was the unsuccessful candidate for the House of Representatives seat of Wentworth, 1943 and 1949. Jessie Street's autobiography, Truth or repose, was published in 1966. Street died in Sydney in 1970. Further biographical information available at: https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-531546
- Notes:
- Manuscript reference number: MS 10450.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1945
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- Copying of Jessie Street's copyright material is permitted for research purposes.
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
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