A Mantle of Light
The first 100 years of Canberra Girls Grammar School
$59.78
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
26 October 2026
Summary
In the early decades of the 1900s, Canberra was founded as the nation’s capital. Within it, a girls’ school was opened by the Community of the Sisters of the Church, led by Sister Hilda. It began in a borrowed rectory with ten students and a steadfast belief in the impact of education for women.
For a century, Canberra and its Girls Grammar School have grown in step – through economic depression, war, and bushfire. They navigated the postwar boom that transformed a small administrativ…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760645212 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760645214 |
| Author: | Nichole Overall |
| Publisher: | Black Inc. |
| Imprint: | Carlow Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 26 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 1.74kg |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 238mm x 296mm |
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Nichole Overall
The Honourable Nichole Overall is an award-winning Queanbeyan-based journalist, author, social historian and New South Wales parliamentarian who has called the Monaro region home since the 1980s.
Originally from Griffith, Overall completed a Communications degree at the University of Canberra and has since worked across a range of print and electronic media platforms and established a successful small business in Queanbeyan. She has also been involved in numerous community groups in the Monaro region.
In 2013, to mark its 175th anniversary, Nichole authored the award-winning social and pictorial history Queanbeyan: City of Champions.
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