Diana Chessell
ISBN 9781743052402 (pbk)
Wakefield Press,
‘Adelaide’s Dissenting Headmaster’ documents the vocation of John Lorenzo Young, who taught the sons of Adelaide’s dissenting majority from 1852-1880. The dissenters found in the rational base of the ‘sciences of the enlightenment’ Young studied at King’s College, London the power they needed to reject biblical creationism and ‘popish languages’.
Elizabeth Morrison
ISBN: 9781922235350 (pbk)
Monash University Publishing, Clayton, Victoria, 2014
The Melbourne Age dominated the Australian newspaper stage from the 1870s well into the 20th century, with its proprietor, the driven, talented Scottish David Syme, becoming a legendary figure. This biography of a powerful man of many parts goes behind the legend to round out his life story.
Patricia Clarke
ISBN 9781921867842, MOnash University Publishing 2013
During World War II, Eilean Giblin kept diaries that are witness to the suffering and futility of war. Giblin also led a life rich in little recorded feminist achievements. Clarke charts the influence of Giblin’s suffragette aunts in England, her arrival in Australia as a war bride after World War I, her battles for equal citizenship and women's education and her championship of the ‘Dunera’...
Johanna Nicholls
ISBN: 9781922052698 (pbk)
9781922052711 (e-book
Simon & Schuster (Australia) 2014
Set in the 1827-32 penal colonies of NSW and Moreton Bay, The Lace Balcony interweaves fictional characters with historical figures. A young woman determines to control her destiny. Marriage offers women social acceptance but curtails legal rights to property, fortune, custody of children. As a courtesan she can choose her lovers and manipulate powerful men. A story of...
Ann Moyal
ISBN 9781742585970.
UWA Publishing, Crawley, Western Australia, 2014
In A Woman of Influence,Ann Moyal tells of her life’s work in Australian science history, and the many important people she met along the way. In this intimate story, one of our distinguished women of letters writes about social and political challenges and about life’s great commonalities: love and loss.
Kerryn Higgs
ISBN 9780262027731.
MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2014
The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that ‘growth’ is entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. Warnings by scientists that we live on a finite planet that cannot sustain infinite economic expansion are ignored. Collision Course looks at the impact of unbridled growth and at recurring corporate campaigns against ideas...