Roma the First: A Biography of Dame Roma Mitchell by Susan Magarey and Kerrie Round

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Faint marks on foredges. Interior and binding are still very good.

Here is Roma Flinders Mitchell, 1913-2000, a life spanning a century that transformed the position of women, and the changes she led.

She was the first woman chancellor of an Australian university, the first woman in Australia to be made a Queen's Counsel and to be appointed a judge in a superior court and the first woman Governor of an Australian State.

Roma Mitchell's life is also a story about contradictions. A lifelong and devout Catholic, her religion aligned her with Irish working-class outsiders, yet she gained a position at the heart of the Protestant establishment, in a world almost exclusively of men. (publisher blurb)