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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Lives in a Landscape (1990)
Author: Margaret Everingham
Published: in 1990 by Margaret Everingham
Dewey No.: 646
Subject: A/B OUTBACK Qld 1919-1940, PIONEERING IN QLD
Format: Book
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Lives Obscurely Great: Historical Essays on Women of New South Wales (1980)
Author: Patricia & Susan Thompson & Yorke (ed)
Published: in 1980 by Society of Women Writers (Aust) authors
Dewey No.: 305.420
Subject: Women; NSW-History-Addresses; Essays; Lectures
Format: Book
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Living Feminism: The Impact of the Women's Movement on Three Generations of Australian Women (1997)
Author: Chilla Bulbeck
Published: in 1997 by Cambridge University Press
Dewey No.: 305.420994
Subject: Feminists- Australia - Interviews etc.; FEMINISM
Format: Book
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Look At Me!: Behind the Scenes of Australian TV with the Women Who Made It 50 years (2007)
Author: Christine Hogan
Published: in 2007 by ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Dewey No.: 791.46
Subject: Accounts by more than 40 women in Australian TV over 50 years. Women as actresses, reporters, anchors, producers, directors and screenwriters
Format: Book
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Looking Ahead: Plan of Action for Women in the Northern Territory to the Year 2000
Author: Northern Territory of Australia
Published: by Government Printer of the Northern Territory
Dewey No.: 305.4099
Subject: ACTION PLAN WOMEN IN Northern Territory YEAR 2000; SOCIAL WOMEN Northern Territory 2000
Format: Book
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Louisa (1988)
Author: Brian Matthews
Published: in 1988 by McPhee Gribble
Dewey No.: 8212.2
Subject: B/O Lawson Louisa 1848-1920, Bio Louisa Lawson
Format: Book
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Louisa Lawson: Henry Lawson's Crusading Mother (1978)
Author: Lorna Ollif
Published: in 1978
Dewey No.: 362.924
Subject: Louisa Lawson, 1848 - 1920; BIO LOUISA LAWSON
Format: Book
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Louise Sauvage: My Story (2002)
Author: Louise Sauvage
Published: in 2002 by HarperSports
Dewey No.: 796.045
Subject: Sauvage Louise, Physically handicapped athletes, Athletes with disabilities, Women track and field athletes. People with disabilities athletes. Wheelchair track and field. Women track and field athletes. Biography. Australia. Sports. Physical disability. Autobiography. Paralympic Games
Format: Book
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Love and War: Stories of War Brides from the Great War to Vietnam (2002)
Author: Carol Fallows
Published: in 2002 by Bantam Books
Dewey No.: 994.008
Subject: Military spouses. Women immigrants. 20th century. Women and war. History. World War, 1914-1918. World War, 1939-1945. Vietnam War, 1961-1975. Australia. History. 20th century. Emigration and immigration. Marriage. War brides. Women and war. Women immigrants. Frau. Krieg. Soldat. Ehefrau.
Format: Book
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Lucy Shaw: Headmistress (1998)
Author: Wendy, Dina & Ian Black, Monks & Wynd
Published: in 1998 by Wendy A Black
Dewey No.: 371 20092
Subject: B/io Lucy Shaw 1898 - 2, School Principals, Australia, EDUCATION /HEADMISTRESS
Format: Book
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Ma & Pa (1963)
Author: Rose Lindsay
Published: in 1963 by Ure Smith Pty Ltd
Dewey No.: 920.9
Subject: BIOG childhood memories BIOG>Family/Sydney
Format: Book
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Ma And Pa: My Childhood Memories (1963)
Author: Rose Lindsay
Published: in 1963 by Ure Smith
Dewey No.: 920
Subject: Lindsay, Norman, 1879-1969. Personal narratives. Lindsay, Rose, 1885-1978. Lindsay, Family. Women authors. Biography. Australian literature. Australia. Social life and customs.
Format: Book
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Mabel Taylor's Diary & Letters From Alice Springs 1905 to 1907 (2011)
Author: Mabel Taylor
Published: in 2011 by Historical Society of the Northern Territory
Dewey No.: 649.609
Subject: Social life and customs as told, through diaries and correspondence, by a governess at the Overland Telegraph Station near Alice Springs.
Format: Book
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Mad Folly
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Madam C. J. Walker: Pioneer Businesswoman (1995)
Author: Marlene Toby
Published: in 1995 by Chil;dren's Press (Grolier)
Subject: Walker,C.J.Madam, 1867-1919-Juvenile Literature, PIONEER BUSINESSWOMAN
Format: Book
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Maggie (1988)
Author: Maggie Tabberer
Published: in 1988 by Allen & Unwin
Dewey No.: 746.920
Subject: BIO Maggie Tabberer, Celebrities-Australia, FASHION/ADVERTISING
Format: Book
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Maiden Over: A Short History of Women's Cricket and a report of the Australian Tour 1948-49 (1950)
Author: Nancy Joy
Published: in 1950 by Sporting Handbooks Ltd
Dewey No.: 795-358
Subject: Women's Cricket, SPORT/CRICKET
Format: Book
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Making a Difference: People, Science and Technology (2004)
Author: Helen Garnett
Published: in 2004 by Office of the Womens Policy
Dewey No.: 306.45
Subject: 13th Annual Alicia Johnson Memorial Lecture. Social aspects of science and technology in Australia
Format: Book
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Making Exhibit Labels: A Step-by-Step Guide (1982)
Author: Beverley Serrell
Published: in 1982 by American Assn for State & Local History
Dewey No.: 069.5
Subject: Museum labels; handbooks, manuals etc GUIDE/Museum Labels
Format: Book
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Making it Happen: How 25 rural women turned ideas into businesses (1998)
Author: Maureen Walsh-Martin (ed)
Published: in 1998 by Scribe Publications
Dewey No.: 33804082
Subject: Women in Business-Australia-Case Studies, BUSINESS /STUDIES
Format: Book
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Manganinnie: The Story of Old Tasmania (1980)
Author: Beth Roberts
Published: in 1980 by Sun Books Pty Ltd
Dewey No.: 823.3
Subject: Tasmanian history; Aboriginal history; TASMANIA /HISTORY
Format: Book
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Manuel Of Domestic Art (1932)
Author: education Dept
Published: in 1932 by Education dept
Subject: Manual DOMESTIC ART-
Format: Book
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March of Australian Women (1964)
Author: Bessie M. Rischbieth
Published: in 1964 by Paterson Brokensha Pty Ltd
Dewey No.: 396.0994
Subject: Women's rights, Society/Woman's rights
Format: Book
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Margaret Olley - VHS 58 (2001)
Author: Margaret Olley
Published: in 2001
Subject: Artist-Philanthropist of the art world
Format: VHS
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Margaret Smith Court - VHS 25 (2006)
Author: Margaret Smith Court
Published: in 2006
Subject: Tennis Champion; SPORT
Format: VHS
