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JARRETT
Patricia Irene
9 March 1911 — 28 August 1990
AKA: Pat. Nee Herschell. Her names were registered as Irene Herschell, but she was always known as Patricia.
Additional Information
Special Achievements
- Grand Old Lady of the Melbourne Herald. Editor of Women's pages in the Daily Sun. Celebrated 25 years of continuous service with the Herald and Weekly Times - the only woman alongside seventeen men on the staff to have served so long.
Additional Information
- 03 June 1972 - Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to journalism.
Resources
Image - Carol Valentine, Molly Hide (both on the English women's cricket team), and Pat Jarrett (the Herald writer on women's sport), 1934 [picture]/3261632
Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia
Link - "Jarrett, Patricia (Pat) Irene Herschell (1911 - 1990)"
The Australian Women's Register
Link - "Pat Jarrett"
The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850"
Link - "Jarrett, Patricia Irene (Pat) (1911–1990)"
Australian Dictionary of Biography
