Free shipping on orders over $99
You Daughters of Freedom

You Daughters of Freedom 1

The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World

by Clare Wright
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/10/2018
5/5 Rating 1 Review

Share This Book:

 
$49.99

A groundbreaking work of storytelling and scholarship from Dr Clare Wright, winner of the Stella Prize for The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka

For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration.

Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory - and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle - through the eyes of five remarkable players- the redoubtable Vida Goldstein, the flamboyant Nellie Martel, indomitable Dora Montefiore, daring Muriel Matters, and artist Dora Meeson Coates, who painted the controversial Australian banner carried in the British suffragettes' monster marches of 1908 and 1911.

Clare Wright's Stella Prize-winning The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka retold one of Australia's foundation stories from a fresh new perspective. With You Daughters of Freedom she brings to life a time when Australian democracy was the envy of the world - and the standard bearer for progress in a shining new century.

ISBN:
9781925603934
9781925603934
Category:
History
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-10-2018
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
432
Dimensions (mm):
241x163x48mm
Weight:
0.87kg
Clare Wright

Dr Clare Wright is an award-winning historian and author who has worked as an academic, political speechwriter, historical consultant and radio and television broadcaster.

Her most recent book, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, won the 2014 Stella Prize and the 2014 NIB Award for Literature and was shortlisted for many other awards.

Click 'Notify Me' to get an email alert when this item becomes available

Reviews

5.0

Based on 1 review

5 Star
(1)
4 Star
(0)
3 Star
(0)
2 Star
(0)
1 Star
(0)

1 Review

Should be compulsory reading in the Education curricula around the Nation.
I'm 72 years old and had heard almost nothing at school about this pivotal formative period of Federation and womens' movements' part therein.

Contains Spoilers No
Report Abuse