Caroline Chisholm
$73.80
- Paperback
252 pages
- Release Date
30 April 1992
Summary
‘The most astonishing thing about her is that she did such work at a time when women were still imprisoned in the strait-jacket of Victorian convention’ - Margaret Kiddle
Caroline Chisholm was the most remarkable woman in early Australian colonial history. Her national importance has been marked by the use of her portrait on Australian stamps and currency.
This is the classic biography of the woman whose remarkable and hard-won achievements first asserted the place of women in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522847338 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522847331 |
| Author: | Margaret Kiddle |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 252 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 April 1992 |
| Weight: | 334g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 151mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Melbourne University Press Australian Lives S. |
About The Author
Margaret Kiddle
Margaret Kiddle was one of Australia’s most promising young post-war historians. Having published Caroline Chisholm in 1950, she just managed to complete the writing of Men of Yesterday: A Social History of the Western Districts of Victoria 1834-1890 before she died at the age of forty-four.
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