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| Nicholson, Gillian: This Way To The Sea
Book Number: 40153
Pier 9 2007 8vo. softcover. 264pp. very good.
Keywords: mid north coast new south wales australia
Price: $15.00 |
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| Freydon, Nicholas: The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography
Book Number: 40189
Constable, London, 1914. 8vo. blue cloth hardcover. 376pp. good, spine sunned.
Keywords: australia england
Price: $16.50 |
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| Forrest, David: Colonial Australians
Book Number: 40221
Penguid 1979 Large 8vo softcover 202pp index, b/w illus. very good.
Keywords: Colonial Australians Forrest David history
Price: $12.00 |
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| Roberts, Jan and Beverley Kingston, Anderson, Maybanke: Maybanke - A Woman's Voice - The Collected work of Maybanke Selfe - Wolstenholme Anderson 1845 - 1927
Book Number: 40247
Ruskin Rowe Press Limited Edition Folio, hardcover, no d/w as issued. New. We have multiple copies of this limited to 500 edition. Pictorial boards with leatherette spine. Maybanke Anderson, a tireless advocate of women’s rights and wider social reform, was plagued in her first marriage by a harsh life, marked by the death of four of her seven children, financial difficulty, her husband’s alcoholism and then his desertion. However such circumstances compelled her into affirmative feminist action, influencing her attitudes toward suffrage and federation, women’s legal rights, the marriage state, and women and children’s rights in basic health and education.
She successfully collaborated with other first wave feminists such as Rose Scott and Mary Windeyer as well as leading male figures. Through such collaborations she ensured the greatest chance of legislative reform and effective use of the women’s vote. In particular she encouraged the development of women’s legal rights in property and divorce. Most notable is the contribution made by her fortnightly publication Woman’s Voice. This
newspaper provided a platform for forthright discussion of social concerns such as suffrage,
sex education, enforced maternity in marriage, as well as divorce. Advocacy of public health reform continued into WWI, when the spread of venereal disease and it’s devastating effects encouraged Maybanke to continue her cause for sex education. She also lobbied for the wider social responsibility of unmarried mothers and illegitimate children, as well as the importance of women’s wages.
Her skills as an educator led her to become one of the fundamental promoters of free kindergartens in Sydney, the first of which she helped establish. She saw these not only as a means to counter the effects of poverty on children, but also as a social necessity for the development of children into valuable citizens. Child development and education were fundamental issues for both herself and her second husband Francis Anderson. Many of her later years were spent compiling histories of Pittwater and Hunter’s Hill, as well as maintaining regular correspondence with newspapers on topics of social concern while overseas.
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Price: $45.00 |
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| Nolan, Sidney: Such Is Life
Book Number: 40269
Milsons Point, N.S.W. Vintage 1992 8vo softcover 271pp index. very good.
Keywords: Nolan, Sidney australian artist biography
Price: $17.50 |
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| Andrew, Patrick.: Kings Cross swindlers / Pat Andrew.
Book Number: 40308
Roseville, N.S.W. Gordon A. Publishers 1994 8vo softcover 189pp. Good. Signed by Author on ffl.
Keywords: Kings Cross swindlers / Pat Andrew Andrew Patrick
Price: $9.00 |
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| McCrae, Georgiana.: Georgiana's journal
Book Number: 40373
Pymble, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson 1992 8vo softcover 253pp very good. Georgiana McCrae arrived in Melbourne in 1841. Georgiana's Journal records her observations, her reactions, and her daily experiences. Nothing is too small to be ignored: a velvet bonnet, a grasshopper plaugue, spring cleaning. Even the largest and most public events are drawn with humour and domestic insight.
Keywords: Georgiana's journal McCrae Georgiana
Price: $12.00 |
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| Stell, Marion K. & Thompson, Ruth (editors): Australians 1988
Book Number: 45649
Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates1987 4to. hardcover. 254pp. index, colour illus. Near fine.
Keywords: australian history australia
Price: $18.00 |
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| Weidenbach, Kristin: Mailman of the Birdsville Track: The Story of Tom Kruse
Book Number: 40513
Hodder 2004 8vo softcover 315pp very good. Biography of Tom Kruse, Australian outback mailman.
Keywords: Mailman of the Birdsville Track The Story of Tom Kruse Weidenbach Kristin
Price: $15.00 |
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| Moorhouse, Frank: The Inspector-General of Misconception: The Ultimate Compendium to Sorting Things Out
Book Number: 40529
Vintage Books 2002 8vo softcover 296pp very good.
Keywords: The Inspector General of Misconception The Ultimate Compendium to Sorting Things Out Moorhouse Frank
Price: $12.00 |
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