Strength of Purpose: Australian Women of Achievement from Federation to the Mid-20th Century by Susanna De Vries

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and at spine. Interior and binding are still very good.

Strength of Purpose is the remarkable testament of twenty-eight courageous Australian women who broke down the barriers of prejudice against women entering professions, the arts and sport, in the period from Federation to the mid-century century.

Includes: Marian Ellis Rowan; Julia Guerin; Maybanke Anderson; Eliza Fewings; Vida Lahey; Ethel Raybould; Dagmar Berne; Constance Stone; Helen Sexton; Agnes Bennett; Lucy Gullett; Lilian Cooper; Elizabeth Kenny; Claire Trestrail; Ella Simon; Kundaibark; (Emma) Minnie Boyd; Louisa Lawson; Sarah Frances [Fanny] Durack; Annette Kellerman; Edith Cowan; Jane Sutherland; Margaret Sutherland; Brettena Smyth; Lillie Goodisson; Selina Sutherland; Joan Rosanove; Florence Taylor. (book flap)