Rebel Women Who Changed Australia by Susanna De Vries

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent.

Visionaries, pioneers, activists and artists - women who made a difference in Australia.

An updated and condensed edition of Susanna de Vries' Great Australian Women, this is a celebration of women who broke the mould, crashed through the ceilings, and shaped the nation in the fields of medicine, law, the arts and politics.

From Lillie Goodisson, pioneer of family planning, to Eileen Joyce, world-famous pianist; Enid Lyons, our first female cabinet minister; Stella Miles Franklin, who endowed our most celebrated literary prize, and Catherine Hamlin, who has given hope to thousands of women through her fistula hospitals in Africa, these are women who have made a difference.

They are the women who helped to forge the Australia we know today. (publisher blurb)

Chapters: Sister Lucy Osburn, Sister Lillie Goodisson, Dr Dagmar Berne, Dr Constance Stone, Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Edith Cowan, Joan Mavis Rosanove, Enid Burnell Lyons, Ella Simon and Kundaibark, Roma Flinders Mitchell, Louisa Lawson, Mary Gilmore, Nellie Melba, Stella Miles Franklin, Rose Scott, Ethel Florence (Henry Handel) Richardson, Margaret Rose Preston, Florence Mary Taylor, Sarah Frances Fanny Durack and Annette Kellerman, Eileen Joyce, Kylie Tennant, Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), Nancy de Low Bird Walton, Mary McConnel, Dr Agnes Bennett and Joice NanKivell Loch, Dr Catherine Hamlin.