Clare McShane interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2938720
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- McShane, Clare, 1948-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1995 Apr. 3
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 17 min.) : analog, mono.
- Series:
- Women of the land oral history project.
- Summary:
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McShane, a , sheep farmer, speaks of growing up in a semi-rural area of Sydney, moving to Tasmania with her family, teaching at Oatlands, Tas. after her training, marrying a farmer, and raising 5 boys on their rural property "Cassavene" which runs mostly Saxon/Merino/Corridale-cross sheep to produce high-quality wool for knitwear, running the property jointly with her husband from 1983, taking up machine knitting as a hobby which then grew into a wholesale business supplying a niche market with woollen garments made from the wool from their own sheep, her hopes for the future.
- Notes:
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- Part of a collection of 33 interviews with rural women for the book "Women of the land".
- Project conducted in association with the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
- Has accompanying photograph.
- Recorded at Lemont, Tas. on 3 April 1995.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and transcript available (typescript, 12 leaves).
- Subject:
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- McShane, Clare, 1948- -- Interviews
- Women in agriculture -- Australia
- Rural women -- Australia -- Social conditions
- Rural women -- Australia -- Interviews
- Knit goods industry -- Tasmania -- Lemont Region
- Woolen goods industry -- Tasmania -- Lemont Region
- Sheep ranches -- Tasmania -- Lemont Region -- Management
- Lemont Region (Tas.) -- Biography
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- Publication date:
- 1995
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