Rebel Women Who Changed Australia
Susanna De Vries
Visionaries, pioneers, activists and artists - women who made a difference to Australia.
An updated and condensed edition of Susanna de Vries' 'Great Australian Women', this is a celebration of women who broke the mould, crashed through the ceilings, and shaped the nation in the fields of medicine, law, the arts and politics.
From Lillie Goodisson, pioneer of family planning, to Eileen Joyce, world-famous pianist, Enid Lyons, our first female cabinet minister, Stella Miles Franklin, who endowed our most celebrated literary prize, and Catherine Hamlin, who has given hope to thousands of women through her fistula hospitals in Africa, these are women who have made a difference. They are the women who helped to forge the Australia we know today.
About the Author:
Susanna de Vries is the author more than 15 books, most about women in history, including 'Desert Queen: The Many Lives and Loves of Daisy Bates', 'Great Pioneer Women of the Outback', 'Heroic Australian Women in War' and 'To Hell and Back'. Her book 'Blue Ribbons, Bitter Bread: The Life of Joice NanKivell Loch', an acclaimed biography of Australia's most decorated woman, won Ireland's Sligo Non-fiction Prize and was short-listed for the Queensland Premier's Non-Fiction Award. An art historian by training, Susanna was made a Member of the order of Australia in 1996 for services to art and literature.
Dimensions: H 23.5cm x W 15.7cm x D 3.6cm
ISBN: 9781460757352
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date: 2019
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 592
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