Collection
Women's Museum of Australia Research Library
You’ll be amazed at the stories we hold…
The Women’s Museum of Australia has a reference library of books, videos and audio cassettes relating to Australian women’s history.
We welcome research projects and encourage research proposals.
For access, please contact the curator at curator@pioneerwomen.com.au for an appointment.

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Golden Hands: The Complete Knitting, Dressmaking and Needlecraft Guide (Vol 4) (1972)
Author:
Published: in 1972 by Hamlyn House
Dewey No.: 746
Subject: Needlecraft, Guide, sewing, knitting, needlecraft
Format: Book
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Golden Hands: The Complete Knitting, Dressmaking and Needlecraft Guide (Vol 5) (1972)
Author:
Published: in 1972 by Hamlyn House
Dewey No.: 746
Subject: Needlecraft, Guide, sewing, knitting, needlecraft
Format: Book
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Golden Hands: The Complete Knitting, Dressmaking and Needlecraft Guide (Vol 6) (1972)
Author:
Published: in 1972 by Hamlyn House
Dewey No.: 746
Subject: Needlecraft, Guide, sewing, knitting, needlecraft
Format: Book
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Golden Hands: The Complete Knitting, Dressmaking and Needlecraft Guide (Vol 7) (1972)
Author:
Published: in 1972 by Hamlyn House
Subject: Needlecraft, Guide, sewing, knitting, needlecraft
Format: Book
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Golden Hands: The Complete Knitting, Dressmaking and Needlecraft Guide (Vol 8) (1972)
Author:
Published: in 1972 by Hamlyn House
Dewey No.: 746
Subject: Needlecraft, Guide, sewing, knitting, needlecraft
Format: Book
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Golden Hands: The Complete Knitting, Dressmaking and Needlecraft Guide (Vol 9) (1972)
Author:
Published: in 1972 by Hamlyn House
Subject: Needlecraft, Guide, sewing, knitting, needlecraft
Format: Book
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Gone Bush (1967)
Author: Ellen Kettle, MBE
Published: in 1967 by The Devonshire Press
Dewey No.: 610.73099
Subject: Her improvement of aboroginal health in NT, medical/health
Format: Book
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Gone Bush! : A collection of bush verse (1996)
Author: Carmel Randle
Published: in 1996 by Carmel Randle
Dewey No.: 821
Subject: Poetry Australian, Poetry
Format: Book
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Good Rowing: A reminiscence about the ABC Children's Session and the Argonauts Club (1982)
Author: Ida Elizabeth Jenkins
Published: in 1982 by Australian Broadcasting Commission
Dewey No.: 791.44
Subject: ABC children's session & argonauts club, Children's Entertainment
Format: Book
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Good Show!: A Practical Guide for Temporary Exhibitions (1987)
Author: Lothar P Witteburg
Published: in 1987 by Smithsonian Institution
Dewey No.: 069 5
Subject: Art - Exhibitions, Travelling - Technique - lighting - security - ART/ exhibitions
Format: Book
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Good Sports : Australian sport and the myth of the fair go (2000)
Author: Peter Kell
Published: in 2000 by Pluto Press
Dewey No.: 3064830994
Subject: 1/discrimination in sports-Australia 2/Sports-social aspects-Australia Sport/social aspect
Format: Book
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Goodbye Girlie (1994)
Author: Patsy Adam-Smith
Published: in 1994 by Penguin Books
Dewey No.: 828.309
Subject: Bio Patsy Adam-Smith; Biography; Authors; Bio
Format: Book
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Granny's Secret Recipes (2001)
Author: Garden City Christian Church
Published: in 2001 by Garden City Christian Church
Dewey No.: 642
Subject: recipes, cookery
Format: Book
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Great Australian Girls : and the Remarkable Women They Became (1999)
Author: Susan Geason
Published: in 1999 by ABC Books
Dewey No.: 920.720
Subject: Buckingham, Bev. Sauvage, Louise. Fraser, Dawn Lorraine. Cawley, Evonne Goolagong, Children's Publication. Biography. Women. Australia. History. Juvenile literature.
Format: Book
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Great Australian Women Volume II: From Pioneering Days to the Present (2002)
Author: Susanna De Vries
Published: in 2002 by HarperCollins
Dewey No.: 994.04092
Subject: Osburn, Lucy, 1835-1891. McConnell, Mary, 1830-1910. MacKillop, Mary, 1842-1909. Melba, Nellie, Dame, 1861-1931. Franklin, Miles, 1879-1954. Scott, Rose, 1847-1925. Sutherland, Jane, 1855-1928. Hanson-Dyer, Louise, 1884-1962. Cooper, Ethel, 1871-1961. Preston, Margaret, 1875-1963. Tennant, Kylie, 1912-1988. Noonuccal, Oodgeroo, 1920-1993. Walton, Nancy Bird, 1915-. Hamlin, Catherine, 1924. Social conditions. Australia. Women Biography Feminism History
Format: Book
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Great Australian Women: From Federation to Freedom (2001)
Author: Susanna De Vries
Published: in 2001 by HarperCollins
Dewey No.: 994.04092
Subject: Australian Women. Biography. Feminism. Feminists. Women. Social conditions. Australia.
Format: Book
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Great Housewives of Art (1990)
Author: Sally Swain
Published: in 1990 by Grafton Books
Dewey No.: 741 5994 19
Subject: ART
Format: Book
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Great Women of History (1984)
Author: George Blaikie
Published: in 1984 by John Fairfax Marketing
Dewey No.: 920.72
Subject: Lillie Langtry, Mme.du Barry, Mata Hari, Nell Gwyn, Emma Hamilton, Lola Montez, Anna Pavlova, Jenny Lind, Sarah Bernhardt, Clara Butt, Ellen Terry; Madame Tussaud, Nellie Melba, Flora Macdonald, Boadicea, Joan of Arc, Mary Watson, Edith Cavell, "Babe" Didrikson, Annette Kellerman; Suzanne Lenglen & Helen Wills Moody, Fanny Durack & Mina Wylie, George Sand, Mitfords, Brontes, George Eliot, Katherine Susannah Pritchard; Queen Victoria, Henry VIII's wives, Anastasia, Lady Astor, Emmeline Pankhurst, Enid Lyons, Jennie Jerome, Edwina Mountbatten, Madame Curie; Amalie Dietrich, Elizabeth Macarthur, Elizabeth Kenny, Amy Johnson, Lady Jane Franklin, Elizabeth Fry, Amelia Earhar
Format: Book
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Great Women of the Good Country... And There Are Many Ways to be Great (1996)
Author: Vida Maney
Published: in 1996 by Border Chronicle
Dewey No.: 994.234
Subject: Women pioneers. South Australia. Biography. Bordertown. History. Tatiara
Format: Book
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Greater Than Their Knowing: A Glimpse of South Australian Women 1836-1986 (1986)
Author: Michael F Paige
Published: in 1986 by Wakefield Press
Dewey No.: 994.230
Subject: Pioneers Women. Australia. South Australia. Biography. Women. History.
Format: Book
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Greer, Untamed Shrew (1997)
Author: Christine Wallace
Published: in 1997 by Macmillan, Pan Macmillan Australia
Dewey No.: 305.409
Subject: Greer, Germaine. Australia. Women's rights. Feminist criticism. Feminists. Feminism. Biography
Format: Book
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Griselda Sprigg - VHS 71 (2005)
Author: Griselda Sprigg
Published: in 2005 by ABC A moment in time
Subject: Traveller outback pioneer at Andando, Birdsville, there were no modern maps
Format: VHS
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Growing up Feminist: The New Generation of Australian Women (1985)
Author: Jocellynne A. Scutt
Published: in 1985 by Angus & Robertson
Dewey No.: 305 SCU
Subject: Feminism - Australia Anna Donald, Sarah Gillman, Emel Corley, Cathy Henry, Michele Trewick, Karen Ermacora, Mary Gartrell, Diana Forward, Jennifer Scott, Fiona Giles Feminism
Format: Book
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Guidelines for Volunteer Insurance
Author: Volunteer Centre, NSW
Published: by Aust. Council for Volunteering
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Guns and Brooches (1992)
Author: Jan Bassett
Published: in 1992 by Oxford
Dewey No.: 355 345 082
Subject: Australia.Army.Australian Army Nursing Service-History; medical//Nursing Army Service
Format: Book