Robin Joyce Part 2 Austen was apparently trapped by conventional ideology. At the same time, she attempted to advance progressive ideas about women’s situation without appearing to recommend Wollstonecraft’s sexual irregularities and her suicide attempts. To write novels…
Category: Women’s History
JANE AUSTEN: WAS SHE A TROUBLESOME WRITER?
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.…
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…
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…
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…
WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds
WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds Sarah Bryn Rickman The following story is an excerpt from Sarah Byrn Rickman’s WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds, out now from University of North Texas Press…