Edgeworth David Women 9781921719516

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Автор: Jennifer Horsfield
Название: Edgeworth David Women
ISBN: 9781921719516
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
Классификация:

Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

История Австралазии и Тихоокеании

ISBN-10: 1921719516
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 304
Вес: 0.62 кг.
Дата издания: 03.05.2012
Серия: History
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 50 b/w illus
Размер: 225 x 132 x 17
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Ключевые слова: Australasian & Pacific history
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: The young Cara Mallett, an orphan from a working class background in rural England, emigrated to the colony of NSW in the late Victorian era. She proved to be pioneer, establishing the first college in NSW to train women teachers. Her adventurous spirit met its match in a lifelong partnership with another emigre, T W Edgeworth David, a young mining surveyor. Settling in Sydney when Edgeworth David was appointed as Professor of Geology at Sydney University, the couple raised a family there while actively engaged with many aspects of Sydneys cultural and political life. Cara Davids staunch feminism was to see her rise to leadership in one of the first significant political campaigns by women, the temperance movement. Sharing her husbands adventurous spirit, she accompanied him on a scientific expedition to a coral island and to geology camps in the Snowy Mountains. During the Great War, Cara ran a convalescent home for soldiers in the Blue Mountains and a land army hostel in Scotland. After the war she played an influential role in the new Girl Guides movement. Caras two daughters grew up strongly influenced by this capable, warm-hearted and energetic woman, and both forged their own creative pathways. Margaret David became an independent politician and community activist before her tragic early death in a plane crash; Molly David became a respected author and environmentalist.

Edgeworth David Women, Jennifer Horsfield