Strength of purpose : Australian women of achievement from Federation to the mid-20th century / Susanna De Vries
- Bib ID:
- 1976382
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- De Vries, Susanna, 1935-
- Description:
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- Pymble, N.S.W. : HarperCollins, 1998
- 268 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0732267846
- Full contents:
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- 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
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1998
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