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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Hidden Women of History
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This series looks at under-acknowledged women through the ages.

Includes

Elsie Masson, Photographer, Writer, Intrepid Traveller Jane Lydon , 2018 single work single work biography
— Appears in: The Conversation , 31 December 2018;

'In 1913, at the age of 23, Elsie Masson was travelling on a steamer near Port Essington, 150 miles from Darwin, when it was approached by a small lugger. The boat was manned by one white man and two black men. '  (Introduction)

Ruby Lindsay, One of Australia’s First Female Graphic Designers Jane Connory , 2019 single work biography
— Appears in: The Conversation , 16 January 2019;

'Ruby Lindsay was among the first women in Australian graphic design. In the early-20th century she pursued a full-time career in magazine and book illustration, likely the first woman in Australia to successfully do so.' 

Kathleen McArthur, the Wildflower Woman Who Took on Joh Bjelke-Petersen Susan Davis , 2019 single work biography
— Appears in: The Conversation , 31 January 2019;

'This year marks 50 years since the launch of one of Australia’s first major conservation battles, waged against Queensland’s ultra-conservative, pro-development premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen. It was for a location few had ever heard of – Cooloola, an area that stretches from Noosa to Rainbow Beach, around 70 km north.' (Introduction)

Eliza Winstanley, Colonial Stage Star and Our First Female Richard III Jane Woollard , 2019 single work biography
— Appears in: The Conversation , 2 May 2019;

'In December 1882, Eliza O’Flaherty died of “diabetes and exhaustion” at her lodgings in Sydney. Aged 64, Eliza lived in a brick cottage behind a dyeworks, where she had been employed as manager for two years. Her demise might seem unremarkable: a widowed, childless woman of the 19th century who had been worn out by work. But O'Flaherty was actually Eliza Winstanley, the first woman to play Richard III in an Australian theatre, and an early star of the colonial stage.' (Introduction)

Isabel Flick, the Tenacious Campaigner Who Fought Segregation in Australia Heather Goodall , 2019 single work biography
— Appears in: The Conversation , 6 June 2019;

'Like many other Aboriginal kids in 1938, Isabel Flick was denied an education  because she was “too black” to be allowed into the segregated public school.' (Introduction)

Flos Grieg, Australia’s First Female Lawyer and Early Innovator Renee Knake , 2019 single work biography
— Appears in: The Conversation , 24 July 2019;

'When Grata Flos Matilda Greig walked into her first law school class at the University of Melbourne in 1897, it was illegal for women to become lawyers. But though the legal system did not even recognise her as a person, she won the right to practice and helped thousands of other women access justice. In defying the law, Greig literally changed its face.' (Introduction)

Frances Levvy, Australia’s Quietly Radical Early Animal Rights Campaigner Elaine Stratford , 2019 single work biography
— Appears in: The Conversation , 12 November 2019;

'We are all touched by relationships with animals — as domestic and working companions, wild inspirations, threats, or pests.' (Introduction)

Catherine Hay Thomson, the Australian Undercover Journalist Who Went inside Asylums and Hospitals Kerrie Davies , Willa McDonald , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 17 January 2020;

'In 1886, a year before American journalist Nellie Bly feigned insanity to enter an asylum in New York and became a household name, Catherine Hay Thomson arrived at the entrance of Kew Asylum in Melbourne on “a hot grey morning with a lowering sky”.' (Introduction)

Millicent Bryant, the First Australian Woman to Get a Pilot's Licence James Vicars , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 1 December 2020;
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop — The Irish Australian Poet Who Shone a Light on Colonial Violence Anna Johnston , 2021 single work biography
— Appears in: The Conversation , 17 June 2021;

'Eliza Hamilton Dunlop’s poem The Aboriginal Mother was published in The Australian on December 13, 1838, five days before seven men were hanged for their part in the Myall Creek massacre.' (Introduction)

Hidden Women of History : Annie Lock Was a Bolshie, Outspoken Australian Missionary, Full of Contradictions Catherine Bishop , 2021 single work biography
— Appears in: The Conversation , 24 September 2021;

'“We have fared well out of native hands”, wrote missionary Annie Lock from Oodnadatta in South Australia in 1924. Four years later, having moved to Harding Soak north of Alice Springs, she declared the government should “give the natives food in place of their country”.' (Publication summary)

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First known date: 2019
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