Great Australian Women: From Federation to Freedom by Susanna De Vries

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages have started to sun.

Presents twenty women who broke down the barriers of prejudice to enter the professions of law, medicine, politics and architecture or made their names as musicians, writers and sportswomen from 1901 to 2000.

Women include Sarah Frances Fanny Durack, Annette Kellerman, Louis Lawson, Mary Gilmore, Martha Caldwell Cox, Dagmar Berne, Constance Stone, Agnes Bennett, Joice NanKivell Loch, Edith Dircksey Cowan, Enid Burnell Lyons, Elizabeth Kenny, Lillie Goodisson, Ella Simon, Kundaibark, Eileen Joyce, Florence Mary Taylor, Joan Mavis Rosanove Lazarus, Roma Flinders Mitchell and Ethel Florence Lindesay (Henry Handel) Richardson.