Australian Women 1830s - 1990s
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# 46483
CIRCUS OZ WOMEN & ASSOCIATES
[MELBOURNE] How’s Tricks? A variety night to celebrate International Women’s Day. Sunday March 6 [1984]. Circus Oz Big Top, Princes Park.
Featuring: Janet Andrewartha, Back to Bourke Street Women, Chrissie Best and Jenny Catrin, Sue Bradley, Circus Oz Women’s Revolutionary Percussion Ensemble, Sally Forth, Gloria Glitter and Glad Tobehere, Sue Ingleton, Teresa O’Reilly, Liz Patterson, Lois Purcell, Jami Trebilcock, Jeannie Wright and Georgine Sparks, Welly Dancing, with Robin Laurie compering. Plus appearances by the Daylesford Banner …
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# 45544
HOPKINS, Gertrude (1869-1894)
Gertrude’s poems
Sydney, Newcastle and London : W. E. Smith [for John Hopkins], 1895. Octavo (180 x 125 mm), original royal blue cloth over boards with gilt-lettered title to upper board (boards with flecking and light staining, spine darkened and frayed at ends); all edges gilt; front pastedown with bookbinder’s ticket of W. E. Smith, Sydney; page …
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# 42998
[LEBER, Sylvie]
Public petition for Melbourne community radio station 3RRR to reinstate the women’s programme “Give Men-a-Pause”, 1981.
[Melbourne : s.n., 1981]. Foolscap folio sheet, Xerox-printed recto only; old horizontal fold; fine condition. The 3RRR women’s programme “Give Men-a-Pause” ran from 1979-1981. It was founded and hosted by Sylvie Leber, a Melbourne women’s rights activist who, among many other activities, was involved in the creation of Victoria’s first rape crisis centre and the …
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# 46480
LESBIAN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION GROUP (Melbourne)
[MELBOURNE] Lesbian violence phone-in, early December 1990.
Lesbian violence is not on!! … The violence has to stop. [Melbourne] : Lesbian Domestic Violence Action Group, [1990]. Handbill, A4 size, printed recto only; faint original folds, some light marks. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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# 41310
[SPENCE, Catherine Helen]
Catherine Helen Spence : an autobiography
Reprinted from The Register. Adelaide : W. K. Thomas & Co., 1910. Octavo, lettered purple wrappers (lightly sunned at spine, small stain), pp. 101, small stain to fore edge, a very good copy. A rare work by Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) – writer and suffragist, Australia’s first female political candidate, and the first Australian woman to …
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# 41670
WATSON, Kathleen
[QUEENSLAND] Autograph signature of Anglo-Australian novelist, short-story writer and poet Kathleen Watson.
Cut signature, manuscript in ink on paper, 60 x 100 mm; identified in another hand below as ‘Writer’; light toning, otherwise fine. Bold autograph signature of Kathleen Watson Dearden, a significant figure on the Australian literary scene – particularly in Melbourne and Brisbane – in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Provenance: Autograph album …
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# 41920
MELBA, Nellie, Dame (1861-1931)
Nellie Melba, opera singer : autograph note signed, to a Mrs. Featherstonhaugh, mentioning that in order to preserve her singing voice she is not allowed to talk.
[No date or place, but almost certainly Sydney, NSW, 1902]. 2 pp. manuscript in ink on an octavo-size bifolium of Melba’s personalised stationery with the singer’s embossed monogram NM in blue and gold at the head of the first side; addressed to a Mrs. Featherstonhaugh and signed at the foot of the second side ‘Yours …
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# 46014
JERREMS, Carol (1949 - 1980); FRASER, Virginia (1947 - 2021)
A book about Australian women
Photographs by Carol Jerrems. Text edited by Virginia Fraser. Melbourne : Outback Press, 1974. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a few light creases and lightly marked), pp. 141; [3], illustrated in black and white, light foxing to preliminaries, a very good copy. Design and layout of the photographic pages by Carol Jerrems. Includes portraits of Ann Summers, …
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# 45623
ADELAIDE PHOTO. COMPANY (SYDNEY)
Dancer in front of a painted studio backdrop. Sydney, early 1890s.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 166 x 110 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted in gold ‘Adelaide Photo. Company. Corner of Pitt St. and Park St., Sydney. One door from Criterion Theatre.’; the print has pin holes at the corners but is otherwise excellent; the mount is a little toned (verso blank). …
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# 46348
TOPLISS, Helen
Modernism and Feminism : Australian women artists 1900-1940
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1996. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (slight edge wear), pp. 232, illustrated. “This book answers the question posed by a number of male art historians and critics: ‘Why were there so many influential women artists in the inter-war period?’ The book establishes a female context for women’s art in Australia and demonstrates …
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# 46309
HINE, Simone
[FEMINISM] A film and a conversation
Parkville, Vic. : George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, 2015. Duodecimo (150 x 100 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers (lightly marked); [22] pp., comprising a feminist essay accompanied by seven of the artist’s digital images. ‘Printed 2015 for f generation at the George Paton Gallery’. This was a group exhibition of work by women artists curated …
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# 46297
SYDNEY FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE LTD.
[WOMEN’S HEALTH] The Invisible Woman : a film for discussion about menopause and aging.
[Drop title]. Darlinghurst, NSW : Sydney Filmmakers Co-Operative Ltd., [1980]. Broadsheet, 290 x 210 mm, folding to 97 x 210 mm, printed on both sides, illustrated; very good condition. Information sheet with synopsis of ‘a film researched and directed by Sabina Wynn, produced by Erika Addis … at the Australian Film & Television School 1980’. …
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# 45893
[KNGWARREYE]. NEALE, Margo, ELLWOOD, Tony, NISHINO, Hanako, et al.
Utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Canberra : National Museum of Australia, 2008. Quarto, illustrated cards, edges very minimally rubbed, pp. 272, small clip to corner of endpaper, illustrated throughout in colour, exhibition catalogue for the exhibition of Australian Indigenous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s work ‘Utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye’. Contains text by Craddock Morton, Kevin Rudd, Murray McLean, …
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# 45614
FRASER, Virginia et al.
Sue Ford : a survey 1960-1995
Melbourne : Monash University Gallery, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 28, illustrated in colour and b/w. Text by Helen Ennis, Sue Ford, Virginia Fraser; a very good copy.
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# 44934
FRASER, Virginia (1947-2021)
A womb for the Pope : cards distributed at Right to Life rally and anti-Right to Life demonstration, Treasury Gardens, 1982.
[Melbourne : Virginia Fraser, 1982]. Stencilled card, 90 x 110 mm; verso blank; in fine condition, archived by the artist in a plastic sleeve with a backing sheet bearing the artist’s typed description. ‘Virginia Fraser was an artist, writer, editor and curator who made an indelible mark on the Australian art world. Initially trained as …
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# 44936
FRASER, Virginia (1947-2021)
Pig and Dingo (did it) trifle : Commemorative trifle #1. Made for Women’s Weekly Bake-off party. Clifton Hill, 1982.
[Melbourne : Virginia Fraser, 1982]. Polaroid photograph, 110 x 90 mm; in fine condition, archived by the artist in a plastic sleeve with a backing sheet bearing the artist’s typed description. ‘Virginia Fraser was an artist, writer, editor and curator who made an indelible mark on the Australian art world. Initially trained as a newspaper …