Robin Joyce Part 1 Jane Austen, was indeed, a troublesome writer. Troublesome for whom? Although the historical context in which she wrote has some relevance, Austen is often troublesome in a way that reflects feminist writing since the 1970s.…
Author: Dr Robin Joyce
Elizabeth Hope Doddrell
Denis Blight Elizabeth Hope Doddrell was born at sea in June 1849 near Port Elizabeth, South Africa. James Rogers Blight was three years old when he arrived in South Australia in the same year. Life in gold-rushed…
I ought to have died, but I don’t do the things that I ought, Mabel Stobart 1916.
Zvezdana Popovic has followed up her information about the exhibition and service held at St Sava Church to honour British women in medical missions in Serbia and on related fronts during the Great War. Popovic spoke about the suffragists and…
Gloria Steinem’s Birthday 25th March
WRITING is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else. Gloria Steinem Imagine we are linked not ranked. Gloria Steinem From Gloriasteinem.com
More Unfinished Business
Sue Neacy WHN Admin. In 1972 Australia voted in a Federal Election, winning enough seats to wrest government from the incumbents of twenty three years. Gough Whitlam, leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), became Prime Ministership. One of…
Unfinished Business and More Unfinished Business
Sue Neacy WHN Admin. Introduction to Sue Neacy: Unfinished Business and More Unfinished Business As a percentage of the population people at tertiary institutions in 2012 58% of the domestic students (as opposed to the large numbers of overseas students…
Scoring the Test in 1970: Enid McMullan
WHN Admin. Today, Enid Hilda McMullan would have been 102. She was a woman who, while aspiring to become a school teacher, assisted on her parents’ farm and her first aspiration evolved into utmost kindness to her future school…
Women’s Suffrage in Australia
WHN Admin. In 1908 the Woman Suffrage Alliance published Woman Suffrage in Australia by Vida Goldstein. The document was found in the Baillieu Library by Karen Buczynski Lee who recognised that it could easily be the only copy…
Fictionalized account of a WW11 woman ferry pilot
WHN Admin. Marge Piercy’s novel Gone To Soldiers (1988) about women and the second world war includes an account of a woman ferry pilot that provides an additional perspective on the work they undertook and their experiences. Fiction, of course, but…