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Elite Women's Clubs in the 1930s across Three Australian States: A Prosopographical Study
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May, Josephine – History of Education Review, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the clubs and club memberships of 491 elite women in three eastern Australian states in the 1930s. It is the second part of a descriptive analysis of these women's biographical sketches in Who's Who-type collections, now out of copyright, published in Australia in the 1930s: Victoria (1934), New…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advantaged, Females, Clubs
Empire's Daughters: The First 25 Australian-Born Women at Girton and Newnham Colleges Cambridge, 1870-1940, as Insiders and Outsiders
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May, Josephine – History of Education, 2020
Between 1870 and 1940, 25 white, middle-class, Australian-born women studied at Girton and Newnham Colleges in Cambridge. This article presents their biographical data, and includes all those listed as Australian-born in Volume 1 of the Girton Register and in the "Newnham College Roll" for the period under review. The article examines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Females, Student Characteristics
Revisiting the Life of Lucy Garvin, First Principal of Sydney Girls High School: Expanded Biography and Use of Digital Sources
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May, Josephine – History of Education Review, 2021
Purpose: The article sets out primarily to fill in some of the gaps in the biography of Lucy Arabella Stocks Garvin (1851-1938), first principal of Sydney Girls High School. As a reflexive exercise stimulated by this biographical research, the second aim is to explore the transformative work of digital sources on the researcher's research…
Descriptors: Principals, Females, Single Sex Schools, Women Administrators